In 2005, my husband and I purchased our first home. The walls were bright orange. Not like, pretty and muted orange. Bright Tennessee Volunteers make your eyes bleed Home Depot orange. The other walls were purple. Like… Halloween candy bright crazy purple.

So we painted. And painted. And painted. And eventually [...]

My brother is two years younger than me. In high school, he secured a date to my senior prom before I did. (That’s how cool I was.)

So one day, on my way from the yearbook room to the parking lot, I ran into our only male foreign exchange student, Marko*. Marko was [...]

In Kindergarten, my mom could entertain me for hours by giving me a dust rag and a bottle of Pledge. I’d lovingly wipe every crevice of our piano and every surface of every tabletop in the house. (Looking back, I was probably getting high from the fumes.)

“I want to be a maid [...]