What began as a celebration of two people loving each other, devolved for me into an affront to my own unattached, unloved self. Even if I attended the event with a boyfriend, by the end of the night I would be drunk and angry with him: why weren’t we married, I would demand. If I attended alone, I made up for the lack of a date by making out with any number of single (and sometimes not so single) men, often waking up next to them the morning after, in the throes of a painful hangover. Having be

Once, you rarely left the house without make-up in case you met your soul mate while you ran to the drugstore for tampons. You considered your daily outfits carefully because you never knew when the guy sitting across from you on the subway was going to appreciate the mink-collared vintage jacket you selected that morning. You carefully composed online dating profiles written with just enough lightheartedness (you do not take yourself too seriously), humble bragging (you are accomplished and can

“It’s sort of lounge-y in here,” I remarked to my co-worker as I walked past his office late one April afternoon. The room’s fluorescent lights were off, and jazz floated quietly from his computer. He laughed. “I feel like I should be having a cocktail,” I said, not joking.

If Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road met television’s The Walking Dead, you’d have Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven—minus the grisly cannibalism and zombies. With the recent popularity of post-apocalyptic writing in books and on the screen, it would be hard to write that world with originality, but Mandel does so by focusing on the lives of the survivors by unravelling their connections before the disaster. It is Year 20 after a pandemic has wiped out all but a few pockets of the human populatio

GO: Let’s start off with the basics: How did you come up with the idea for your business? Kristin R. Thomas, Mountain Girl Productions: When I produced my first feature film I had such a hard time getting funding from investors. So, I decided to bring in funding with companies that could provide the props, wardrobe and locations I needed. It became obvious really quickly that there was a need to bring in sponsors to help others with funding. Investors might not want to take a chance on an L

On their wedding day, Cuc and Gwen committed themselves to spending their lives together—and renewed their vow to make marriage possible for all. Cuc and Gwen on their big day! When Gwen Migita, 40, and Cuc Vu, 41, met three years ago through their work at the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C, marriage wasn’t a priority for either of them.