Silver and gold friends: Is there a difference?
Categories: Live
There’s a distinction between “home” friends and “college” friends, and as Gen Y comes of age, we are caught in limbo between home and college, here and there, then and now. But why do we distinguish between the two? Is one gold and the other silver, like the Friendship Song told us?
Gen Y’s Bucket List
Categories: Live
Have you even wondered what the ultimate Gen Y’s bucket list would look like? What do millennials want to do? I wondered, so I asked other millennials to share their bucket lists and here is what we want to do before we kick the bucket. We want to travel A LOT: To certain cities like [...]
Everything I Wish I Learned in College, I Already Know
Categories: Grow
There are a lot of things I wish I learned in college. None of them are academic, and most of them I already know. All of them are those “life lesson”-type things you learn (sometimes painfully) outside the classroom and are certain of only about 12% of the time. We may have more technology at [...]
Facebook: Mom, it’s not what you think
Categories: Connect
About four months ago my mother became an avid Facebook user. Since then I have removed pictures, edited info, and made countless other efforts to make sure she still considered me her perfect little girl. As older generations begin to infiltrate Facebook, younger generations, who are for the most part their family, are having to [...]
The Real Risks of Real Food
Categories: Food Week
Food has always been a central theme of family gatherings, but I don’t think you could call us a typical American family. Growing up, we ate out a lot or ordered takeout simply because busy work and school schedules got in the way of preparing dinner. For the most part though, both my parents had [...]
Child of Divorce
Categories: Live
I used to think of divorce as a bad thing. “My parents,” I’d think, “are better than that.” In my mind, it was a personal failing if you weren’t able to work out conflicts with your spouse. Keep in mind that at the time of these thoughts I was 13. Much of my understanding of [...]
