I went all of 2021 without buying clothes that I didn’t need. Fine, I did buy one pair of Thinx underwear, but I had a decent coupon code and it was on sale. Does underwear count as clothes? I’ve tried in the past to buy less clothes (attempt #1, #2…

There are too many constant reminders of things that we should own and want to own. After all, we live in a capitalistic and materialistic world. The problem is when I see one of those things, I get obsessed with the idea that I need it. Recently, it’s been an…

So much stuff — I’ve moved four times in this city. Each one after another where I told myself, “Why do I torture myself to save a few bucks? Why am I so cheap?” Yet, I do it over and over again. I won’t let the rent increases get the best of me. …

I’m one of those girls who has a natural, lanky body. Still I had my own physical body desires on how I should look. Most importantly, I desired abs. The ones that not only models had, but the pretty, “regular’” girls showed off in their bathing suits on Instagram. …

The last piece I published was in April 2019. My friend asked me why COVID hadn’t inspired me when it seemed to inspire everybody else to create. Instead, I’ve stuck to consuming over this timeframe. …

(When I’m not going anywhere.) — I like goodbye letters because it’s an avenue to put everything you’ve been holding onto, on the table for the world to see. There’s nothing more to hold back because you’re flying away, driving away, going away. It doesn’t mean to burn your bridges, and on the contrary, it’s the…

It’s one of those things that hits you all at once. You blink your eyes, caption your latest Instagram, “not ready to leave,” and walk across the stage, shake hands with the dean and who knows who. Just like that you’re off into the world, all green and blue. …

A story about social media in the modern age — I had a suspicion that someone deleted me off of Snapchat. It was a twinge, a thought, almost what you would call a fear. I don’t know — I hadn’t spoken to that person for weeks and we weren’t even close friends, just a product of coincidence and chance, so…