Culture

1. Write a damn letter.

Look, Connect Four is not a good game. But it can be over quickly, which is pretty great.

I adamantly refuse to sacrifice my fierce femininity.

12. Was someone just like, “I have a great idea: let’s shave part of a goat and then kind of ball up the hair and glue a pin on the back and call it a goat hair brooch”?

A photo of your long-dead cat, Milo, in a brass Easter egg-shaped frame. Oh, sweet animal, I miss your furballs, you think when you hang it on a low branch. Milo had an uncanny ability to hork on laps when unwanted visitors overstayed their welcome.

Talk about growing up fast! It seems like yesterday that we sobbed at the trials and tribulations of onscreen widower Ben Affleck and his adorable daughter, played by the even more adorable Raquel Castro, in Jersey Girl.

When we make medications seem like a failure rather than a simple necessity, we make the people who take them feel like failures, too.

I’m working on an essay about the time I was raped my freshman year of college. For the very first time, I’m naming my perpetrator. Even if it’s only his first name, there’s still so much power in it.