This Virus Exposes Our World As It Really Is
Just as the 2011 tsunami in Japan revealed the hidden pieces of the ocean floor, the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing ugly truths about our way of life.
Just as the 2011 tsunami in Japan revealed the hidden pieces of the ocean floor, the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing ugly truths about our way of life.
Like almost every woman of my generation, I was raised on a diet. After decades of obsessing over my weight, quarantine is finally giving me permission to stop caring.
He engineered these dudes, but most people don't know his name. Or the official name for the tube dudes, for that matter.
I learned the quiet heartbreak of losing someone who truly understood what it meant to live in a body like mine.
I silently observed the members of a wedding-shaming Facebook group leave mean, judgmental comments on a photo of my dress.
With my job on the Mars Color Imager, I gained a lot of perspective on our place in the solar system.
A boxer reveals the body issues and internalized misogyny that kept her in the ring.
It's tempting to beat ourselves up when we fail, but we're capable of so much more if we give ourselves compassion instead.
As a stunt performer, I'm trained in the meditative art of staying focused while I burn.
I worked at PetCo for a whole year when I was 17 and one day my shift fatefully overlapped with James Garretson. Yes, he let me pet a lion. Yes, I was stoned the whole time.
Don't worry about being productive right now. Just be aware.
Being cast in "School of Rock" was a defining moment in my life — for better or worse.
Setbacks are hard, but they give us the space to see what truly matters.
I love filling in the dots of strangers' lives. Overhearing arguments and spying on texts. Eavesdropping is a lesser-known casualty of this pandemic.
I lost my job, my home and my future in 2015. Now, as the pandemic changes everyone's lives I find myself prepared for another shift in priorities.
It's taken me 24 years to realize that my life is not predetermined, that when I lose my debit card it's because I was tired and not because of transgression.
My best friend Nora changed my life in ways that the KonMari method could only dream of doing. Nothing sparked joy for me like the feeling of loving someone and being loved in return.
My wife, Rachel Lozano, was given a 0% chance of surviving Askin's Tumor — a rare tumor arising from the chest wall. She survived longer than anyone thought she would, and inspired millions to live fully.
I am afraid of the one thing everyone wants from alcohol: to become someone else.
Before my diagnosis, I spent half my life playing a long and painful guessing game.