At their biological core, men are ruled by sexuality. They identify potential mates using their eyes first, while women take a more complicated approach.

You probably thought I was going to recommend Orange Is The New Black but I’m not.

The middle seat is your domain.

Join me in this mystical voyage through the most pressing reasons why potatoes deserve our love.

Not even the least sexually inhibited are immune to awkward moments between the sheets. The reason for this, I believe, is twofold. First, we’re all susceptible to the involuntary nature…

Cry until you’re all out of tears, and all that remains is resilience.

If you add this nail-world favorite to any polish, it will shine bright like a diamond. Just trust me.

Us males are a clueless, relatively embarrassing gender–particularly when it comes to interpreting female actions. Here are some trends–some recent, some timeless–that even the most competent male has a tough…

When we let our second-date nerves take over we risk running our mouth into the ground, and burying those magical sparks of love right along with it.

Still, all of the above is still better than having a roommate, am I right #studiostrugglers?

There’s nothing that makes me quiver more than a drug dealer entering my private home and asking, “Mind if I use the restroom?” Fact is, buddy, I DO mind.

I thought that a man crying was a rare and ugly thing, certainly nothing that I would encounter in my romantic life.

There are a lot of big bad things. The world is full of them.  They are smeared, and gray, and hovering over us. They hide behind suits, or masks, or…

I haven’t been in a fist fight since I was 15, but if I needed to, I would crack some skulls for my best friend.

Always text back promptly, even if it’s to let someone down gently. The worst thing you can possibly to do someone is leave them hanging so they can torture themselves…

Stay confident in knowing that you made the right decision. Your wallet may be crying and your apartment may be sketchier than an undergraduate drawing class, but dammit your memoir…

With the holiday season in full swing, people are packing up their cars and preparing to move into the airport terminal temporarily all to reunite with the extended family they…

My grandfather’s mother was raped by her stepfather or uncle (no one can really be sure) when she was fourteen. They lived in rural Illinois, and, at fourteen years old…

People who’ve never tried Flying Biscuit or Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles have never truly lived.

22. PoeticWindSongs

I wish to God I’d had a list like this when I was 23.

To begin, I got totally screwed over in the dental genes department. I was born with a pretty severe overbite and a mouth that was too small.

Single people love to whine about being single.

1. Make friends with at least one bartender at each of your top 3 favorite bars.

Britney’s perfumes account for 34% of all celebrity perfume sales.

Now that it’s nearly a decade in our rearview, we’ve begun to get a glimpse of what’s got longevity; namely, what songs are really good at encapsulating the weird time…

So many of my relationships in life — when I was more insecure, when I didn’t like myself, when I didn’t think I deserved much — have been about proving,…

Today I began an essay: For as long as I have known how to be, I’ve been ashamed of my body. My publications all live within this same confessional territory.

I know that people – all people – are victims of humanity; we are all broken.

1. It’s been years since your parents slept in the same bed.

1. Get your first full-time forever job. There’s a certain sense of satisfaction in earning a salary, buying dishes at HomeSense and owning furniture that isn’t from IKEA. 2. Learn…

10. Make sure your lips are always chapped by constantly licking them and never applying chap stick.

Pull them closer in their sleep.

“Cooking and re-organizing knick knacks all day seems like it actually might be pretty sweet.”

3. Flirt All The Time

Obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride…

A pair of boots that keep your feet warm and comfortable in the winter without giving you that upside-down corn dog look of Uggs.

22. Take a friend’s dog for a walk. Who said working out had to be heart-poundingly difficult?

In the brief amount of time it takes to reach your train station, hit the front of the lunch line, or collect your latte, you’ve somehow managed to project an…

21. When somebody compares your looks to another person, that other person always has glasses—no matter how little they actually look like you.

One should never look like they’re trying too hard, especially not when they’re in the midst of trying so hard they’re giving themselves an ulcer.

Deep-fry cauliflower, slather in barbecue sauce. It’s so simplistic, but so, so good.

Regularly discussing all the things they want to do before they get with someone, such as travel or write a novel, because — as we all know — the freedom…

“Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”

11. The spot-the-difference game grew old quickly didn’t it?

In 2005 my father went to the doctor complaining of chest pain. The doctor assured him it was heartburn and sent him home with Tums and no further testing. My…

Employing the word “soulmate” in casual conversation, as if that wasn’t the linguistic equivalent of coughing up glitter on someone in the middle of a sentence.

Perched atop an exam table at Rutgers’ Imaging Center, twitching bare feet, I glance from the standard medical gown keeping me cold to drab linoleum floor to unforgiving fluorescent ceiling…

The beauty of things must be that they end.

Straightforwardly asking someone out and not calling it “hanging out.”