I just completed the hunt for my ninth apartment in five years. Below is a summary of my search as a well-traveled, female twenty-something who is about to be a resident of the Big…
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As I look out my apartment window onto the bright lights of Chicago, I think about the significant changes I will face in these quickly approaching weeks. This is my final countdown.…
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I love my life. I'm working toward great opportunities and have much to be thankful for. In the meantime, I find the age of 27 to be a hurricane of change and emotions. And,…
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Our culture is obsessed with love – the feeling of it, the hunt for it and the despair of losing it. I still believe in fairy tales, but I believe in fairy tales of…
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Five days a week, we drag ourselves into the cube farm, into temporary, makeshift work spaces, many of us banging our fists against our internal walls in hopes that someday it will end. One…
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We all have those weeks. They are the weeks that linger like a looming black raincloud and are filled with the types of seemingly endless days that everyone knows about, but no one wants…
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We chose a beautiful university campus, but the relationships among the Bonnies who walked those hilly paths are what made the experience a “Bonaventure experience.” We had few outlets of escape, so we relied…
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I've been to San Diego before, but it wasn't until this trip that I fell in love with San Diego.…
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This would be my second trip to Santa Barbara, and both times I found myself content to aimlessly wander the palm tree-lined streets and leisurely take in the sights.…
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It has come to my attention that no matter the status of a woman’s career, relationships or lifestyle, she needs women in her life for the simple, yet critical reason of maintaining sanity on…