A Very Very Very Fine House
The only thing better than being a grownup is pretending to be a grownup. Actually, that is a lie. There are a lot of things...
Posts by hannahpasternak:
5 Things on Netflix to tell Mike You Binge-Watched
It’s hard to seem woke when the only six TV shows you’ve watched in full are about white people living together in New York. And...
A Valentine’s Day Card for the Guy You’re Kind of with but Not Really Sure???
2.14.17 Dear Dan, I know we aren’t like, together together, and we don’t have a label on it—not that “it” is really anything at all,...
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
I spent a greater portion of the last year wanting a boyfriend. I have been working on a long term writing project which causes...
Baby Mama
This is an actual excerpt transcribed verbatim from my 4th grade diary, dated January 13, 2004: My babysitter Andren is having a baby. It...
Boys Don’t Understand My Clothes
There is one conflict in hookup culture not-so-well addressed: the conflation of high fashion and the boys who attempt to quite literally see what lies...
My Momager and Me
(co-authored by Stephanie Sauer Pasternak, Brown Class of 1987) (please enjoy my attempt at photoshopping my head onto Kim Kardashian’s body, thereby giving myself a...
Shopping, Period
Mom? Hi? You there? Yeah. It’s me. I’m fine. Kind of. Yes. I just… I’m in the middle of my first period. No, it wasn’t...
Security Blankets
I’ve been in two long distance relationships. I’d like to say that this is sheer coincidence and not a product of my intimacy issues, but...
A Case for Breakfast
For the first quarter of your life, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when “scientists” and “leading researchers” and “your mom” tell you...