- Mar 31
- 2 min
Gymnastics
“I’m home,” I shout into the kitchen, back from school, as the cracked glass breezeway door slams shut behind me. I kicked it out of...
- Mar 31
- 3 min
College Essay
I’ve decided to share my college essay that helped me get accepted to Harvard in 2014. I wrote this when I was 17, on the bus back from a...
- Mar 29
- 2 min
- Mar 13
- 4 min
- Feb 16
- 2 min
Sydney Wants Love
Many of you likely read the New York Times article that came out today about Kevin Roose's conversation with Microsoft's new AI chatbot...
- Feb 5
- 5 min
death & impermanence
The following is a quotation of an audio clip by American philosopher Sam Harris: “Many of us do most of what we do in spite of the fact...
- Jan 24
- 1 min
- Jan 13
- 3 min
- Jan 11
- 1 min
- Jan 8
- 3 min
I Can’t Watch Movies
It’s Sunday night. We’ve been watching football all day and are ready for a change. (Correction: Jack did, I fell asleep within the first...
- Nov 1, 2022
- 4 min
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
4 to 16
This isn't a "story" like my other blog posts. Rather, it contains my thoughts surrounding female body image, gaining weight, and mental...
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
ECT
The below is from an electroconvulsive therapy (“ECT”) treatment I got at McLean Hospital. I got several of these treatments during the...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 2 min
Dear Jack, Part II
Some of you may have been watching the apartment mess go down on my Instagram story. Yes, it’s been difficult. We are at Jack’s...
- Aug 16, 2022
- 3 min
Ugly Naked Guy
I have bared my soul to all of New York City—and I mean that quite literally. Bare naked, birthday suit. (Okay, maybe not all of NYC; but...
- Aug 22, 2021
- 1 min
Dear Jack
This post was written to wish my fiancé, Jack, a very happy birthday. Dear Jack, Before I met you, I was in a really dark place. I was...
- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
Goat Man
This post is about the time I spent with an eccentric billionaire in Maui. I wrote this on my phone on the plane ride home. I pull up to...
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
Girl Crush
Nicole left for Amsterdam for the night with Jason. We were in Paris for Spring Break—her parents paid for the whole thing, luckily,...
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
The Artist
It’s 3:30am on Saturday night in the Lower East Side of NYC. March 9th to be exact; I’m walking down Allen St. Daylight savings time put...