Making the Case Against Dropping Everything to Travel

Within the travel industry there’s a rose-colored Instagram filter perpetuated by semi-famous travel bloggers, upper-middle class students on their semester abroad, and/or upper-middle-class-recent-graduate-trust-fund-babies taking a “gap year,” that implies everyone absolutely has to drop everything and travel. Because, that’s totally feasible and responsible, right? ...

lifestyle, most popularGrace StampsJune 6, 2017opinion, travel

Compliments that aren't compliments

A few weeks ago I got a pretty lame pick up line while on a date. It had me thinking of all the horrible compliments I’ve received that are truly microagressions* masked as “affection.”

lifestyleGrace StampsDecember 2, 2016article, opinion