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My grandmother was loyal to her local Sam’s Club. She kept that membership for 22 years, since I was 10 years old, and swore by the savings and bulk deals. She loved everything about it — from the early senior hours to the routine of pushing the cart to get…
Shortly before my 23rd birthday, I was diagnosed with Asperger’s, now known as autism spectrum disorder.I’d been studying to become a high school English teacher. However, after a difficult substitute teaching internship, I decided that path wasn’t for me.The glitzy city of Boston felt like the logical next step, so…
Every year, I try to rewatch dozens of movies, finding comfort in seeing familiar characters and saying aloud what their next lines will be. Around Thanksgiving, I’d prep myself for this tradition with one of my favorites, “When Harry Met Sally” by reading the screenplay for the first time ever,…
Within 24 hours of graduating from college, I hit the road and drove 1,500 miles away from my hometown to begin my first full-time job. I was officially in the “real world.”For the next eight years, I moved from apartment to apartment and city to city, spending my 20s exploring…
This past summer, I experienced a modern-day miracle: I matched on Hinge with an attractive guy, with an interesting job and hobbies, and he messaged me. He asked me on a date, planned it, and showed up (and was actually over 6 feet tall, as advertised). He asked me on…
The R&B singer Cassie Ventura, a longtime girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, broke down on the witness stand Tuesday as she testified she felt “worthless” joining in on the drug-fueled sex marathons that he called “freak offs.””I felt pretty horrible about myself. I felt disgusting. I was humiliated. I didn’t…
For nearly eight years, I didn’t have a car and lived in super walkable cities, like New York City, which meant I often got close to 10,000 steps a day just by commuting to work and doing daily tasks like grabbing coffee or groceries.When I moved from NYC to North…
Someone once said that love finds you in the most unexpected places. And for what my life is today, this has never been more true.I’ve always been proud of having a family and being a father. I have two grown daughters, 21 and 26, and they have taught me the…
When my older sister called to let me know that the painful lump in her breast was not a clogged milk duct from nursing her newborn, my world shattered. My 31-year-old sister was diagnosed with stage 3C breast cancer.I immediately purchased a one-way plane ticket to stay with her and…
