I’m out dancing with my girlfriends; we’re laughing with our eyes closed enjoying the music when I right my head, open my eyes and see a cute guy — shoot — we’re making eye contact.  Pretty...

I don’t think most people think of Passover as the holiday of gratitude. I don’t think most people think of Passover, period. But, for those who do, especially secular Jews like me, Passover tends...

I was walking to the crosstown bus I took to school in sixth grade listening to my older brother’s rap and hip-hop playlist when the song “That Power” by Childish Gambino came on. If the words “I...

I really did not want to go to my formal at the end of last quarter. It was during reading week and I was all kinds of stressed, plus I wasn’t feeling well. Then, less than an hour before I was supposed...

When I was in seventh grade, I asked my dad to wake me up twice a week when he went to the gym in our building’s basement so I could run on the treadmill. Back then, I was wildly insecure about my body...