mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

It’s 2 a.m. at your friend’s house. The place is silent; most of the dwellers asleep.  Would you walk into the bathroom when clearly the light is on within and the water is splashing into the sink? Seriously? I mean, come on.  That just happened to me. No knock, just the slow opening of the [...]

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When I first went away to college and lived at the dorms at NIU, I could function on very little sleep, talking to people like Natalie and Scott on AIM all night and playing pranks on my floormates. It’s only been a few years, but my horrid, erratic sleep habits have finally caught up with [...]

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This past weekend, Sean and I visited his sister’s family on the north side of the city. She has three kids who are five, three, and six months, if I’m remembering correctly. From the moment we walked in and she answered the door holding the youngest, I totally fell in love with her baby. I [...]

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It is a decades-old issue across the globe—super-skinny models and waiflike celebrities influencing “regular” people—but it wasn’t always like that. In the 1940s and 50s, voluptuous, post-war fertility symbols were worshiped—models and actresses such as Marilyn Monroe—and they dominated pop culture until British model Twiggy hit the scene. Ninety pounds at the age of 16, [...]

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My friend Mershant told us at work today: “I saw something today that only white people do. Kids on leashes. Have you seen that? That’s just crazy, pulling your kid along like they’re a dog. My mother would never resort to leashing us as children, because she could give us that look…or a whoopin. We [...]

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