I’ve always wanted to be that barista girl. The one that customers secretly have a crush on who remembers their regulars orders and knows how to perfectly execute every single drink in the coffee world. But alas, that wasn’t me. I was on the other side of the counter, ordering…

I got my first tattoo for my 18th birthday. It was a matching tattoo with my sister, who paid for it as her gift to me. It was both of our first tattoos, so we hid it from our parents. It wasn’t until a couple months later, my sister accidentally…

CONTENT WARNING: contains themes of anxiety, depression, and suicide that may be triggering to some readers. Saying goodbye is the hardest thing. This past week I had to say goodbye to a part of my life that I won’t ever get to experience again. Oregon, George Fox, Undergrad. I moved…

In psychiatry, a psychopath is defined as someone with antisocial personality disorder. ASPD describes an individual who shows patterns of manipulation and violation to others and someone who goes against society, rules, and other behaviours that are more commonplace. According to the Hare psychopathy checklist, a psychopath can be identified…

Today was my cat’s 15th birthday. I remember when we first got her as kitten, I was 6 years old so the idea of having kittens blew my tiny mind. We adopted her along with her brother Boots (named because he was all black except his white paws.) My family…

An airport during COVID is the most eerie thing. Seats are spaced out and labeled “do not sit here” in order to create social distancing. Only one security station open, only one bathroom open, restaurants closed. …

I was walking through goodwill browsing the glassware section, dreaming of all the different things I could decorate my house with. Vases, platters, jugs, jars. My eyes stopped at a large jar and that’s when it hit me like a cartoon light bulb over my head. Kombucha. I snatched the…

There are so many different options out there as a woman for birth control that you can try. There’s the pill, the IUD, the ring, and the implant, just to name a few. If only there were that many options for men! (But that’s a whole other can of worms…

The first time I saw a man in a crop top was Johnny Depp in the film “Cry Baby.” Since then, I never thought twice about my attraction towards it. Luckily, I wasn’t alone in this feeling, with the crop top phenomenon blowing up Tiktok’s For You page. I grew…