Mélanie Berliet
I adore the following, in no particular order: knee-high tube socks, acrostic poetry, and my little brother. Click here to learn more!
5 Reasons To Thank Darkness, For The Beauty That Can Sprout From It
Since the world isn’t exactly fair, good things tend to happen to terrible people as often as bad things happen to wonderful people. (NSFW pictures)
Radical Honesty May Be The Best Way To Re-Appreciate Lying
An especially frank comment. Does honesty breed honesty, I wonder.
How To Live (And Have Sex) At Your College Library Like This NYU Student
We’re on the lower level of NYU’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library near Washington Square Park during the first week of fall term.
4 Things That Are Just Not Okay In A Relationship
1. The Withholding Of Sex
I Fell In Love With A Married Guy And I’m Not Really Into Apologizing For It
He was married at the time, but in our moment nuptials didn’t matter. Nothing did.
If My Sister Were Alive
Here’s what we would watch, eat and laugh about.
I Stripped For My Boyfriend’s Dad
My boyfriend’s father, the renowned artist Michel Tcherevkoff, is an older version of his son — in handsomeness, infectious charisma, and the tendency to refurbish broken-in shoes rather than purchase a new pair.
50 Awesome Truths My Sister Wrote Down Before Dying
As sisters, we shared a lot, but I wasn’t aware of this booklet’s creation until Céline’s death, at age 30, in the spring of 2009.
My Little Brother Evokes The Incredible, Indelible Power Of Sibling Love
This past November, my parents hosted a bunch of close family friends, including several children, over the Thanksgiving holiday. I was playing tea with a girl of about six when she stopped suddenly, miniature sugar bowl in hand.
5 Tips On How To Have Sex At Your Parents’ House
Sex is an integral part of humanity. And yet, few of us are comfortable discussing this aspect of our lives openly with our parents. Why?
Rejection’s Secret Upside (Plus 22 Actual Pass Emails For One Project)
The choice to enter a creative field is the choice to work for free, at least for a while, and the choice to subject oneself to a constant cycle of pitching, waiting, acceptance, validation, rejection, and self-doubt.
On The Job With A Percocet Dealer For A Night
Aside from the fact that he was a drug dealer, nothing seemed unusual about the guy sitting on my couch one recent sweltering Thursday night as I applied one last swipe of mascara.
4 Awkward Scenarios You’re Bound To Face In The Sack
Not even the least sexually inhibited are immune to awkward moments between the sheets. The reason for this, I believe, is twofold. First, we’re all susceptible to the involuntary nature of bodily functions.
How I Became An Orgasm Donor
Perched atop an exam table at Rutgers’ Imaging Center, twitching bare feet, I glance from the standard medical gown keeping me cold to drab linoleum floor to unforgiving fluorescent ceiling lights.
Sometimes Getting Along With Family Means Shutting Up, And That’s Okay
As Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe, learned after Mary’s sister Liz announced her anti gay marriage stance, it can feel like a gut-wrenching betrayal when a loved one’s allegiance to an ideology contradicts your way of thinking, let…
Happiness: Before Buying It, Maybe Try Redefining It
“Anyone who tells you that money can’t buy happiness doesn’t have any.” When I first heard this mantra, I was a bond trader at an elite investment bank, and I nodded and smiled knowingly at the “wisdom” trickling off my…
A Middle-Aged Man Peed On My Door Regularly For A Year (And I’m Not Actually That Mad About It)
To be clear, right off, I am not a fetishist: For a long time, I didn’t even know it was pee.
5 Things You Can Get From Casual Sex Besides An Orgasm
We all seem to agree that young women are embracing hookup culture as fervently as their male peers. But according to a recent study led by the Kinsey Institute’s Dr. Justin R.