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My ex-boyfriend used to break up with me a lot. Like every three months, a lot. I could always feel it coming. It was like a death beetle strumming its feet across my chest, causing my heart to race and...

I always felt things in a big way. My emotions had a way of taking over me. Rage would fill my lungs and send me screaming to the ocean in the dark when I thought no one could hear me. Sadness would...

Ashley Sinden exhaled her last breath on her hospital bed as I inhaled a hit from a joint intended to be smoked in her honor in my apartment in San Diego. I wouldn’t get the news until the next morning....

We like to use lines like “you don’t owe anyone anything” to get out of dealing with emotionally charged situations.   Lines like that are designed to validate poor behavior. No, we don’t owe anyone...

I keep waiting for something to happen. Anything. A glimmer of hope to guide me out of the dark corridor I find myself fumbling through.   Everyone always talks about the door that closes in...