Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of...

Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the...

The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn – so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life…

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. … She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy,...

My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.

Life’s not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.

So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of course included sex. Lots and lots of it.

I’m glad you were both here,” I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you’re single among a room full of couples.

I know that the problem isn’t the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

dangerous chemistry

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you...

I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me....