this year, i want to thank you for loving me at my very worst. thank you for all the home-cooked meals and fresh-baked goods. thank you for ...

"Why do you still read my blog?" I knew I wasn't going to receive an answer. Not a tangible one anyway. Somewhere over the c...

On the eve of my thirtieth birthday, and I'm not where I thought I would be at this moment in my life. I didn't think that I wou...

"She's not even cute. I don't understand," she'd said, showing me a blurry photograph off Instagram. "It's n...

at christmas you tell the truth it was a hard year without you.

What right do I have? That's what usually makes everything feel null and void. It's been over a year and I still feel it. I feel...

"Not only is your birthday a special day for you, it is also a special day for me. I'm so thankful you were born, because you have ...

And the night falls down Yea, you've got me here In this humdrum town At almost twenty-nine, I finally grew out of casual sex, lear...

On the eve of my twenty-ninth birthday and our ten year high school reunion, we were coping with decisions we’d made that got us here. She...

Sometimes I'll have these moments where I miss you, and then I'll go and look at the few memories I still have access to. I try not ...

It was the summer of endless nights, east coast road trips, rest stops, drive thrus, west coast love, the hot desert sun, fleeting crush...

V: did u meet any new guys as of late C: no one worth keeping V: isn't that how it always goes C: that's how it seems J: i don...

If I could say anything....I would tell you that I love you, even when it didn't show. You know how I save everything? I should rea...

I wondered today, when a whole day will pass and you wouldn't have crossed my mind. I wondered when that day would come. These days I ...

How long does it take to move on? A: "I still cry every time I think of -. But I know it'll eventually stop." T: "Even...

"Have you cried?" Knowing what to say was never his strong suit. When he asked, he was looking away. And when I was on the verge...

the loss of a friend was always the hardest part. maybe that's why i could never commit to anyone. i hated losing people so much. i coul...

And I've been thinking about forever. At almost twenty-eight, I often can't believe how fast time passes, and how much happens. A ...

sometimes you'll cross my mind and tears will well up in my eyes and it makes not much sense considering the time we didn't really k...

We weren't friends, not by the real definition of the word. We'd only met on a few occasions, and had one real conversation, at this...

Ronald: "'I want, I want, I want', well that makes her an interesting character Ally. When you print your life story, I will be...

"You're like a full time job and I had to go through 1000 interviews."

Ben: Am I going to be okay, man? Pete: Who knows? Is anybody okay? I'm not okay. You're asking the wrong guy. - Knocked Up We w...

"where've you been. We don't talk anymore." Him: "we'll talk. I miss talking to you."

At twenty-seven, I'm learning how hard it is to let someone love you, how hard it is sometimes to live this life right by yourself, by o...

Facebook was being annoying, and it made all of my tagged photos viewable to everyone. So, in an attempt to figure out how to fix that, I en...

We'd noticed him. Picked through the guys, noting the cute ones, calling dibs, as if we were younger than we were. Of course, the good ...

Miguel: you're psychologically insane. Mike: kim i feel like in real life you are a much more upbeat person Mike: and for some reason ...

K: my dad was arrested last week. C: my dad could have been arrested last week too! why was he? K: cause he was out drinking ....but he wa...

We were talking today, in the car, after getting froyo outdoors at some late night place open by the university in town. Everyone there was ...

I'm sorry I couldn't love you the way you wanted me to. You were stupid enough to believe the way I felt would change. But you kne...

"I think you are fascinating and nice to be around (on the Internet and IRL), and I'd like to see you do well and be happy." -...

Mike: it's killer Mike: it's draining Mike: soul-crushing Mike: and sometimes you look up from the computer screen Mike: and you...

"I was an English major, now I'm working doubles." eight months since graduation. eight months. they say the average unemplo...

...I guess this would apply all across the board. All those I once had friendships with, and those events that transpired over late night c...

i often can't believe how fast time passes. and how much happens. a reminder that you do eventually get over everything, sometimes old f...

-i said, i actually wish it had never happened. wasn't worth it. -you said, really?? everything happens for a reason.

-"it's not going to be easy." -"i don't need easy. i just need possible."

This city can be suffocating, wounding, in its memories, its countenance, the way it knows me, but I can't say I love any other more. ...

i'm a romantic. i'm a deep romantic. i feel too much. i scoff at the color pink, flowers, frills and dates. but all i want is fo...

there are the kind of secrets that bind us, that create trust, love, from which real friendships form, and then there are the kind of secret...

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."- Mark Twain I get crazy, you know? That...

"I've become a real believer in not defining every single thing. Seems like every time you think you've figured out what someth...

"Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them." I don't know where this quote o...

story goes she got me cookies on sunday... ann: but they are hard now me: well i like hard ones. are they stale. this makes me so sad. try...

"We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug ...

There's that point where you realize your parents are just people, flawed in ways you never recognized, and then there's that poin...

 At twenty-six, I'm finding out, people will often tell you, sometimes settling is the only option, and sometimes, there's nothing y...

Me: "What's wrong?" Her: "What do you mean. A lot of things are wrong." Me: "God. Most people would say. ...

“Most girls’ plan is to meet a guy, love, have a baby, but I don’t know if I have what it takes for everybody’s regular plan” - How Do You ...

Her: "I need to get a guy bff so I don't hang w stragglers. You want the job?" Him: "Do i have to interview? Whats the d...

I thought about it. How would it feel. How would I feel. In a moment, you came to your senses, and you figured it out, that I wasn't rig...

muddling in the rabbit hole. forever lost.

On my wrist, is a tattoo of an envelope with a heart on the flap. Strange, I know. Most people don't get it. Most people don't get m...

Whatever happened to her?

Four years ago, my mother was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She later had a mastectomy. I remember speaking with the doctor over the...

Ah, to find a guy, to help you get over the guy, who helped you get over that guy. It's a vicious cycle.

We'd grow up, test out waters we never got around to, thinking maybe the past had it wrong, but we'd find we were right the first ti...