Known  mostly as a jewelry designer for Tiffany, Elsa Peretti passed away  yesterday at the age of 80. She had been a model in her youth and  remained a devoted philanthropist until the end. After I came through my  medical ordeal two years ago, I found (on the resale market)

When my parents brought an infant me to be baptized at Incarnation Catholic Church in Glendale, CA, they were told that my father would have to annul his first marriage before the Catholic church would bless his second. Note, his first marriage lasted a decade and produced two children, my

The  way I feel about people being outraged about Dr. Seuss Enterprises  choosing to stop publishing books with offensive material is the same  way I feel about people who freak out about cursive penmanship not being  taught in schools anymore, new words they don't deem worthy enough  being added to

CW: Medical stuff. Diet stuff. I moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2014 to attend an MFA Fiction program at San Francisco State University. Over the next three years, my life slowly changed. I met a group of people who, even if they no longer live in the