Lived Experiences

Before you pay thousands of dollars to have Christina Hendricks boobs or grieve over the ones you have, understand the consequences. 1. Finding a good-fitting and cute bra is nearly…

I am not a virgin. (But don’t tell my mother.) At the age of five, I gave myself to Jesus. I did not know what giving myself to Jesus meant,…

In my experience, the people who call people sluts in an attempt to insult them aren’t even aware of the actual “truth” in their insult. They’re just saying a woman…

Have you ever been in a relationship that wasn’t meeting your needs but you kept waiting for things to get better? That was me in a sexless relationship for the…

We always say that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t judge people by what’s on the outside — get to know them and judge them by what’s…

I used to get hit with a belt and that was enough for me. Some parents thought of clever ways (or they didn’t think it through at all) to punish…

I was always that girl who thought it was odd for women to date men more than 5 years older than her. Even though I have an aunt who got…

After I moved across the country from the town where I’d spent my college years, where I’d acquired a network of friends, in my new city I was understandably lonely…

It was early spring, buds of green leaves sprouting from trees that had been nothing but bark for three months. Gray snow had not yet melted in the shadows of…

Can a simple pimple cause death? Theoretically it can—or at least it can lead to it. If, say, you were to pop a pimple located within the “danger triangle of…