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The puddle and my boots.

It’s been rainy and windy in Chicago. In the past two days I’ve witnessed more umbrellas break than I can cou..

My roommate and drag mother, Valentine Addams, and myself, Kelly Boner, in an advertisement for issue 3 of Velour Magazine

I came to C..

Logan Theatre / Photograph by Felicia Ferrara

After seven years of living in the West Town neighborhood in Chicago, I finally moved to..

Greetings once again, reader!

With five weeks remaining, summer is rapidly approaching its end and–most importantly–the beginning of ..

I’m sitting here writing my last blog as your Fiction Ambassador, and reflecting back on my time at Columbia with rose-tinted glasses. I’v..

Just before show time at iO’s Del Close Theater

I just started my latest summer adventure this past Saturday. I’m taking improv classe..

Looking up at the park.

Chicago loves summer. I mean Chicago really loves summer. From the moment the sun started staying out past 5 o..

I just completed my fourth semester at Columbia. It could be considered my final semester, since the Fall will just be me working on my th..

What is the name for the energy that permeates a campus a week before Spring semester gives way to summer? I’m almost certain I don’t know..

Burn Out: The half redacted/half misspelled moments of life.

It’s a blue sky day here in Chicago. It’s sunny with a high of 80. Everyo..