How Much Does Hair Matter?

Sophomore year of college at Oberlin, I went through an androgynous/sexually-experimental phase wherein my friends helped me buzz off all of my hair, starting with the ponytail.

Hello, my name is Annie, but you can call me Annie Blair Lieber. I am 24 years old and currently live with my ...

Dreamland Lost

This plane keeps us all together, and as these chattering Chinese fly us to Jakarta I am wishing you could be who you were. I show you how to fill out the customs form. I have been here before. You haven’t. All I want for us is to stay whole.

Bart Schaneman lives and writes in Seoul, South Korea. He has published numerous stories, essays and poems and is ...
 

16 Tips For A Phone Interview

Stop breathing so damn heavily. This isn’t phone sex. Unless you’re interviewing for a phone sex operator position… then, uh, good job with the breathing. It sounds pretty authentic.

Ted Pillow's entirety can be revealed in a single sentence, but he accidentally sent us this one instead. His writing ...

The Risky Business Of Love

If, in the end, Lewis is right — that there are no safe investments — wouldn’t it be easier, less painful, less gut-wrenchingly traumatic in the long run to not invest at all? Wouldn’t it be more conducive to one’s all-around emotional and psychological well-being?

Donna Peterson is a 26-year-old writer, director, and actress from Silver Spring, Maryland, who received her B.A. in ...

Tits, Tears, And Frozen Daiquiris: A (Not So) Touristy Guide To New Orleans

If you’re someone who has issues with food, New Orleans isn’t the place for you. When traveling here, you have to just accept that you’re going to unleash your inner Kirstie Alley and gain weight.

I write and edit Thought Catalog. I'm a brat. Send me fun things at ryan@thoughtcatalog.com
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