Fifteen years old and in the back seat of a charter bus heading down I-95 en route from a field trip to New York City he told me he loved me. He proved it by licking the bottom of my shoe. I have been chasing that feeling ever since.

I remember what I was wearing: Mary Jane Dr. Martens, Bull Dog jeans, a red tint in my hair. We had gone to see Rent with our high school's English Honors Club, an association we had both joined as a front to get around my father's watchful eye. We didn't go … Read More

I can think of few things tackier than getting married live in Times Square -- but then again, I've got enough judgment not to have gone on an MTV reality show called Engaged & Underage.

Nikki Bryant, 18, and Josh Turner, 19, of Georgia met at their Baptist church when they were 14. This weekend the pair are saying their "I do's" live from New York. Couples marry live on TV all the time (anyone else used to love staying home from school sick and watching Live With Regis and Kathie Lee?) but usually they're not... … Read More

Bar hopping and making out with preppies maximized my time during the sticky summer months following college graduation. That June, I'd shoved boxes of clothes and the complete series of Sex and the City into the 500-square-foot apartment I shared with my girlfriend, Kelsey, and started my grown-up life as New York's newest Samantha.

One morning after hooking up with a pair of roommates, Kelsey and I shamefully took the bus home to save money. We rode uptown between old ladies dressed for church still drunk in our matching outfits: a man's sweatshirt, boxers, fishnets and our shiny heels. We … Read More

This past weekend, I went home to my parents' house to spend some time with the fam. I was digging through some of my old stuff in the basement when I came across this marble composition book collaged with little celebrity cutouts from magazines, stickers, etc. It was my old "spill book" from eighth grade. My BFF at the time, Sue, and I used to pass this book back and forth every few days in school and write notes to each other in it. There were also pictures of us in it, song lyrics we both obsessed over, inside jokes … Read More