We know that if we eat whole, clean, nutritionally dense foods, we will feel better.

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” — Frank Zappa.

I wrote a novel about the Olsen twins and You’ve Got Mail and Peter Gallagher.

6. Don’t mistake comfort for happiness. Comfort can sometimes just be a more pleasant word for fear.

The relationships we thought would never end did. All the hopes we had of spending forever with someone were crushed and so were we. We had a period of rejection-induced-loathing-filled-misery.…

Everyone has regrets. Historical is hysterical. It’s easy to look back at the past now and see the road signs we missed. The forks in the road we could’ve taken.…

It is hard to pick out scenes for this story. How to discern what’s important. How do you compartmentalize the brittle histories between two people?

Hey, let’s look into each other’s eyes and say “I wish I were you” at exactly the same time — maybe we’ll pull a ‘Freaky Friday.’

Getting yelled at is terrible. But, like most terrible things, it is also an inescapable part of life — especially a life that involves healthy risks.

4) Unprotected sex with someone who doesn’t want to do it.

Pretty boys aren’t the worst because they care about how they look — we should all care about that — but because that’s all they care about.

As our friendship escalates in intensity, I feel that I, being your borderline platonic/romantic companion, am obligated to advise you to terminate your relationship with the Anonymous Nobody Male.

They always love us, even when we don’t deserve it. Their hearts know no limit to the amount of attention or affection someone should get, and they are made almost…

Will he, come September, watch ‘Homeland’ with me on a weekly basis, or at least not prevent me from doing so?

You have absolutely no energy to start getting to know someone all over again, you just want to be with someone you already know perfectly well.

You can’t let go because you’re worried that if you do, what you’re so desperately hoping for will fall apart. I have news for you. You’re tearing it down yourself.…

I broke up with people I loved. I fell in love again. I moved. I was unemployed. I was homeless. I cut my hair short.

All my ladies I want to see you happy, bubbly and smiling without ceasing! Dance and sing loudly at every possible moment to prove you are fun-loving and carefree!

Kelly Kapowski was fabulous, and these 10 looks prove it.

It feels so crazy to go out on a week night, but you read somewhere that weekday parties are the new “thing.”

Not specifying to the waiter that you just want regular tap water and then having to pay for this absurd bottle of precious mineral water harvested from the morning dew…

BAM! Magic. Painful, painful, painful magic.

Just as an empty boat that rams into us isn’t targeting us, so too people who act unkindly are driven along by the unconscious force of their own wounding and…

20. “I can tell those apart who can milk a cow, I mean with their bare hands. Sometimes people can tell by looking at someone, ‘Aha! This must be a…

You become part of a team and can understand disagreeing about something even though, at the end of the day, you both just want what the other one wants.

1. There are no safe investments, but we invest anyway. Because heartbreak is transient but regret is eternal.” – Donna Schute Provencher, The Risky Business Of Love

Here are the 10 best romantic movies — from the French gem ‘Girl on the Bridge’ to various bodice-rippers to ‘Strictly Ballroom’ — available to watch right now.

Long live the first Aunt Vivian!

“Over-committed to irony, under-committed to relevance.” Kate, 21

6. He doesn’t give any money to charity.

3. You need to get out more. Extroverts think that introversion is something that can be fixed by simply throwing yourself out there, like maybe if you had three more…

“I’m just crazy about Tiffany’s. …The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there.”

Did I do it for Allah? No.

‘Manhattan’ may be just a romantic comedy. But it’s the smartest one ever made.

I am a bar exam failer. Nearly three years ago, I, like you, fruitlessly scanned the list of numbers to find that one had been omitted. Mine. 364.

All of the new products and ideas for getting young girls interested in the STEM fields and out of restrictive gender norms, such as Roominate.

In no particular order.

When you hear the word hissed across a bar as another girl parades by in a red dress and full confidence, it is not really this woman that the speaker…

As an adult when you are pressured to prioritize your romantic relationship over all else, it is difficult to cultivate those other super important relationships in your life.

Maybe they don’t even realize it. They have grown up for so long in the cage of their beauty and have come to imagine that everyone is afforded their treatment.

4. It’s not a hickey, it’s a tattoo… of a hickey.

You essentially take a long walk off a short pier of respectful, timely communication and sequester yourself into a love-cave to grow a sex-beard à la Rip Van Winkle.

Like many others, I spent four of my most formative and drunken years in a deeply involved love affair with Boston. In the wake of Monday’s tragedy, I’d like to…

Space is recoverable. The status of a college degree, the income from a job — recoverable. Time is not. This time you have now is it. You will not get…

Becoming more acutely aware of how precious all the time you have with your older family members is, and how not a single day with them is guaranteed.

The Hooded Sweatshirt Douchebag

10. Mild hallucinations are setting in. Did my puppy just mumble something about Cee Lo Green’s tiny hands and smile with a full set of human teeth?

There are a thousand different reasons people get (and stay) together and some of them can be the farthest thing from love. If this is your truth, change it. Go…

Life is unimaginably short and passes even faster than that; there will be enough average things in your life. Don’t let love be one of them.

That you’re essentially paying thousands of dollars to end up with a piece of paper and maybe a job that pays off your debt. Maybe.