This post is brought to you from beneath the covers of my cozy queen-sized bed, where I’m currently holed up with a sinus infection. I should be working (Fridays are the busiest days), but instead, I’m still in my pajamas and sipping on green tea […]

Six months ago, the founder of That First Year (and one of our own talented contributors), Ally Willis, emailed me about a very special project she had in mind: A print magazine chronicling the terrifying and wonderful adventures of post-college life. She was reaching out to a small […]

January is a strange month, don’t you think? It arrives immediately after the holidays, and yet it feels a world away from the festive chaos of December. It is the return of routine after a season of letting loose and going with the flow. A clean slate, if you […]

It’s the year of 25! I celebrated my 25th birthday a month ago, and Kristen turned the big two-five just yesterday. (Pop open the champagne!) Come to find out, we’ve learned a few things in the last two-and-a-half decades of being alive. If we could go […]

“There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or […]

My acting teacher loved to tell me to get out of my head. It was her favorite critique of my work. “Get out of your head,” she’d yell on the sidelines as I workshopped my monologue. But I refused to get out of my head. […]

Dear readers, I have a secret to tell you. Two weeks ago, when we finally launched Her Story Goes, I was absolutely terrified. Not that you wouldn’t like it, per se, or that it’d get a bad response. (Y’all are too nice for that.) Essentially, I was scared of not […]