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We Are The Walrus

My father and John Lennon.

by Lauren Davis on April 26, 2015April 26, 2015

When Life Gives You Lemons

One of my closest friends called recently after a bad breakup. We hadn’t spoken in a few weeks, so when I picked up the phone, I felt that familiar yet uncomfortable sense of separation caused by more than just physical distance.

by Lauren Davis on November 23, 2014November 23, 2014

Shakes On a Plane

Some people grapple with their own mortality through meditation, or mountain climbing, or making a pilgrimage to some lost, crumbling temple full of monks. Some do it because they’ve just received a diagnosis of terminal illness or reached their 80th birthday. I just have to step onto a 737.

by Lauren Davis on September 28, 2014September 28, 2014

The Great American Grand Prix

It is 6 p.m. and I’m sitting with hundreds of fellow equine fanatics in a stadium flanked for miles on either side by farmhouses, wooden fence lines and flat, sandy fields speckled with horses. Many around me wear baseball caps to keep the sinking Florida sun out of their faces; a few had the foresight to bring a blanket for the inevitable temperature drop later tonight, when the stadium will be lit by giant electric flood lights.

by Lauren Davis on April 19, 2014April 19, 2014

The Mare’s Teaching

During breaks from Princeton, instead of lounging on the couch, I can be found somewhere on Route 95, clutching a Ziploc bag full of carrots and heading to northern Massachusetts with my mother. It’s our ritual—a necessary pilgrimage to visit the members of our family who are too big to live at home with us, but no less loved for it.

by Lauren Davis on October 12, 2013October 20, 2013

Growing Down

Reluctantly back home with my parents two months after deciding to take time off from Princeton, I wasn’t exactly in prime form. My uncontrollably racing mind had left me sleepless for weeks. The process of peeling away the suffocating layers of anxiety accumulated at prep schools and college was proving to be agonizingly slow.

by Lauren Davis on April 25, 2013April 27, 2013

Our Brains, Ourselves

It’s been hard to miss the photos from the “What I Be” project popping up on our newsfeeds and around campus these past weeks: up-close and intensely personal shots of fellow students staring unapologetically into the camera, with their deepest insecurities scrawled onto their skin in capital letters.

by Lauren Davis on March 9, 2013September 7, 2013

The Quarter Life Crisis

“I know myself,” he cried, “but that is all.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Oh, Francis. If only I could say the same. This last line from a book I recently pulled from the towering stack on my desk … Read More

by Lauren Davis on February 14, 2013March 22, 2013

A Defense of the Female Nerd

Let’s be honest. I’ve never been cool.

by Lauren Davis on November 14, 2012March 22, 2013

Aristocrats and Accents

The irresistible allure of Downton Abbey.

by Lauren Davis on February 29, 2012March 22, 2013


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