That's Aloud!

The essay that got me into college isn't just a hilarious farce about how (NOT) to bake a cake. It's a manifesto.

Sometimes it takes someone you've never met to show you who you are.

I ask because, truth be told, mine didn’t. For four decades. The Bechdel Test, for those not in-the-know, is a measure of female representation in fiction. T...

One question I never get asked is: “How did you get into college?” Which is a shame because it’s a darn good story. You see, in high school I was rather more...

Some days feel like they were specifically designed to kill your buzz. Yesterday, for example. I was riding high on a wave of serendipity after making one of...

How to find your authentic path through an inauthentic world.

This coming Monday is May Day, i.e. May 1st, i.e. International Workers Day, which around here means a slew of protests and the accompanying threat of violen...

Anybody else out there feeling sort of… stuck? If your life is currently running like a well-oiled machine that spews out meaning and value in a graceful fou...

First, a confession: My name is Adrienne, and I’m a podcast addict. Maybe it was all that NPR growing up, but I just luuurrrrve listening to podcasts. I can ...

My senior year of high school, I had an amazing teacher. She taught me more useful stuff about how to learn in the course of one semester than I had learned ...