Rebekah Renko

Criticizing others without the necessity to do so is bullying and stilts art for those you’re speaking against.

If you’re laughing while Peter Dinklage is crying, you can get the hell out of my living room.

6. Like a drug addict, you get a sinking feeling of despair and anxiety when you realize your “stash” is gone. 

I can honestly say I don’t necessarily have a personal style.

I can reflect on where I envisioned myself being as a 25-year-old, and how differently things constructed themselves to prevent those exact expectations from coming to be.

I’m recently married. Six months into my marriage, and I can already attest to the fact that change often brings with it anxiety and tension for a person struggling with their diet.

Somehow my smallness in Los Angeles made me resilient. I began to realize it was the effort of trying that made me matter. Failure to try became paramount to failure in of itself. Essentially, success was no longer mandatory, while willingness was everything.

The first time I smoked a cigarette was in jest. It happened on a humid summer night when I was a week away from leaving for my freshman year of college. I was with a childhood friend who had smoked forever and the process felt safe, almost childlike…