Hey, love. Listen. Sometimes depression is just a thing you have. Sometimes it ain’t going anywhere. You can do all the work and troubleshooting, putting in effort and doing what you should with nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, gratitude, mindfulness, therapy, medication, and so on, and still… you know, have depression…

Thrift stores — and nights in my Corolla — led me to the power of books — When I was 19, I threw a mug of hot coffee at a framed wall tapestry my dad purchased when he was in Italy. …

If the tears and outrage of white liberal feminists dictate the energy of the entire anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal movement — which is to say, if brutality and political violence upon ‘lower’ classes is generally met with apathy and brunch and gossip about Johnny Depp, or perhaps with talk of voting…

It’s worth overcoming initial skepticism to add these crucial tools to our lives — An admission: I usually skim or outright skip the lengthy cooking-recipe-website-esque intro paragraph(s) before most articles get going. Shitty ones usually serve the same rhetorical purpose as the headline, and if I’ve already clicked the thing — as I’m aware you have — then I’ve already bought in and the…

in 7th grade i dyed my hair red. bright, fire red. it was great; i looked like Jean Grey’s filipino bastard kid. for 3 Christmases in a row i asked for a bass guitar. the one i got that year was red as my damn head and i brought it…