Having spent the first eighteen years of my life in New Delhi, India, I grew up fully assimilated in the community I interacted with every single day. Even London, where I spent my freshman and sophomore...

I have never been very consistent at keeping a journal — the small, navy blue one I write in from time to time has been with me since seventh grade.  The first page of the journal dictates that in...

Biologically, I have zero sisters. In reality, I have about 68.  My parents have owned DNA Pro Cycling, an international professional women’s cycling team, for the past 12 years. The team is a Union...

Great sci-fi has the gift of extraordinary prescience, but I wasn’t thinking about that when I first read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” I was a middle schooler enthralled by Douglas Adams’...

In a time with a million ways to stay in touch, staying connected in a way that doesn’t slowly degrade into faceless pictures over Snapchat or an occasional text can be hard. Losing connections with...