Eliana Osborn

If you kill a tortoise, even on accident, you probably shouldn’t have children.

1. Write a damn letter.

When did I discover that sterilization isn’t as cut and dry as it seems? While sitting in a hospital gown, signing my life away, awaiting surgery.

I’m not there yet. But I need to be honest—I’m closer to 40 than any other multiple of five.

A new, exciting trend is to have food pantries for college students. I talked to an AmeriCorps volunteer running one of these centers and she was matter-of-fact about the need — and how little is being done. Today’s college students may be young and single, living la vida loca. But more and more are what we call ‘nontraditional’: slightly older, employed full-time (or close to it), supporting a family, a veteran, etc.

Hunger for nontraditional students doesn’t mean surviving on ramen: It means they are not the only person in the household who's in need.

A haircut is a whole lot cheaper than therapy or tattoos or a round-the-world plane ticket.

I cried every single day of my life until I was 18 years old. I did not know this was abnormal.

The other magical thing about living in 2015 is the Internet. You can get great training in all kinds of fields while sitting in your underwear at home.

In this film, we got to walk backstage with the young Broadway actress currently playing Annie. She explained the rules for taking on the role: Once a girl started her period, she couldn’t be Annie.

I’m a sucker for an interesting woman, so Notorious RBG is obviously my sort of book.