ELLI SHELLIST I suppose it’s appropriate to write here that the editor who invited me to write here is a former student, who I met when she was a fresh-faced…
MEGAN DOMINY “Are you getting any sleep?” asked my dental hygienist upon learning that I had an 18 month old. “Lately, she’s been sleeping through the night.” I replied. “That’s…
NORA ROSENGARTEN & SWEDIAN LIE Polyamory is often defined as the act — or what Merriam-Webster calls “a state or practice” — of actively juggling more than one intimate relationship at a time, in…
HOLLY ORMSETH A theory I’ve been shopping around with my friends lately is that being on acid is like being a baby. Everything is new. Hands are fascinating. The basic…
NATALIE GALLAGHER In this issue, we talk to Meghan Salomon-Amend, a psychology graduate student at Northwestern, about her work on people’s difficulty in predicting future events, optimism, and the future…
In this issue, we explore the events & rituals of significant transition in the process of growing up, whether that’s childhood to adulthood and/or during other life-changing performative moments, such…