Five Years Later, Wesleyan Is Still The Best Decision I’ve Ever Made

May 27, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

I love Wesleyan. I love it more tonight than I ever have because I see it for its faults and scars.

How I Became Internet Famous for Having Herpes — and Why I’m Retiring

November 4, 2017.Reading time 39 minutes.

The moment you go viral, you lose all control over your story, your privacy and, in some ways, your future.

The Year I Didn’t, Couldn’t and Desperately Wanted to Write

July 6, 2017.Reading time 12 minutes.

For the last year I’ve been a sex writer who doesn’t write. I haven’t had much sex either, but that’s a different essay.

Ella’s First Time In Print!

November 18, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Chemical [se]X is here!!

Journal entry: morning commute

October 13, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

So here is your daily life at the beginning of October. You get up at 7:25am and put on your nice jeggings from Uniqlo, the soft, tight-enough ones in dark business colors that you wear with a thick brown belt and knee-high boots. You drag one of your two leather jackets across your shoulders, the pink […]

5 Tips for High School Grads about College

June 1, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

5 Tips for High School Grads about College I gave my advice for Greenwich High seniors about college on Greenwich Free Press! That image you have of yourself as a senior four years from now, valedictorian and accepted to a great law school? Yeah, probably not. Very few of my friends wound up where they expected to be […]

journal entry: graduation

May 30, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

Graduation day is very slow, waffles, your boyfriend does not want to wake up and cannot find his dress socks, your parents manage to get parking in the Vine lot because they arrive early, there are a lot of pictures, you are flustered. Everyone seems cranky and you bristle and he shakes their hands. More pictures. They go […]

Foss Hill, mon amour

May 19, 2014.Reading time 1 minute.

One of these days you will write the next great coming-of-age tale, and it will end with the heroine standing alone on top of Foss Hill, looking out at the old brick buildings and the grass having just experienced some great epiphany. You don’t know yet how she gets there, what land mines of post-adolescent […]