Women’s Issues

  For as long as I can remember, I have been searching for something. Since I was born, since my initiation into this life in pink and joy, it has been a hole in my chest. High and low I [...]

The summer after my freshman year of college, my grandmother told me in a Kohl’s dressing room that I needed to lose weight. “Everyone goes through it, honey. Your mom, your aunt. Everyone gains [...]

I don’t even like this guy, so why am I hanging out with him again? It was a Sunday or Monday night and classes had finally started up again. I was in the passenger seat of a black Toyota next to [...]

Musician Lights shares the pressure society places on young women and where to find inner beauty and how to persevere in a world that will tell you it’s impossible [spb_video [...]

When I was 15 years old I was what singer Avril Lavigne would come to dub as a “skater boy”. I was skinny, wore baggy JNCO jeans, had long hair, and enjoyed playing Nirvana songs on guitar. I [...]

I’m by all means and classifications underweight. And a lot people say that’s not a bad thing. Except it is. A few months ago, I walked into the doctor’s office for my regular physical and he [...]

I tossed my cell phone on the bed and watched it bounce to the floor of my bedroom. It hadn’t rung or beeped or buzzed in hours, and I was frustrated with watching it. I was 20 and the guy I had [...]

A month before my wedding day I wasn’t getting my last dress fitting or tasting possible cake choices. I was in the hospital. In an operating room. Wearing a very breezy gown. I had been [...]

No one wants to have coffee with me. Let me back up.  My husband and I moved in January to a new house in a suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth, and I’ve been fighting loneliness.  Our families [...]

“I’m never going to find myself a grown-ass man! I’m approaching 30 and still surrounded by children parading around as men. And the good ones always get snatched up immediately….” My friend [...]