I wrote an edition of Communal Shower Thoughts this summer where I briefly mentioned that I was working at a bagel place. I ...

In August of 2024, I said goodbye — through tears — to a group of incredible summer camp staff friends I made over the past three summers who live overseas. “Don’t worry,” I told them. “I’ll come ...

Communal showers after PE (aka gym class) in school may as well have been a torture device. Everyone who experienced that particular flavor of teenage hell remembers how stressful it was to have to ...

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