Martha Stewart may have popularized the term “good thing,” but I made it my own.
I started keeping Good Things lists in my journal two years ago, during a dreary time in my life. I had gotten so used to seeing the bad stuff — too used to it — that I was losing sight of [...]

When I was in junior high school, I hated carrying a purse. On more than one occasion, I remember Ricky asking whether I had a Kleenex or a pen or a piece of gum. Anything, really.
My response was always “No,” and his reply to that was usually something like, “You’re a girl. You should [...]

You Are Free, an illustration I drew for Measure Magazine
My friend Daniele is doing something very cool this year. She’s doing everything that scares her.
I love that idea: Taking wild, courageous leaps into territory we’ve never gone before–territory we assumed was blocked off with yellow tape and orange cones. I want to do more of [...]

Our Saturday was half road trip, half field trip. Rama, Sidra and I drove a couple hundred miles to the San Diego Zoo. They played Connect Four, while I bopped my head to the Shins. We took turns dancing and making faces at people passing by on the freeway.
At the zoo, we picked out our [...]

I met Klair on the swing set at Plummer Park.
“Hi,” she said.
“Hello,” I smiled.
“How old are you?” she asked, shuffling her feet against the ground.
“27,” I said.
She looked at me with exclamation point eyes. “Why are you here?”
I told her about the zine convention I was attending and how I overestimated the time it would [...]