Riley Altiere

What loss has taught me, what you can learn from it, too

I have always dreaded one distinct feeling in my stomach, where your heart sinks and your insides become knotted. Whenever that feeling arrives, I’m 12 years old again, awakened by my mother who said she had to talk to me. In a half-dreaming daze, I stumbled into her room and climbed onto her bed, figuring […]

Don’t let romance be your oxygen

You are someone else entirely when you remove the need for romance.  As I scroll through Instagram and TikTok, especially after Valentine’s Day, my feeds are flooded with digital postcards of seemingly perfect relationships. When I spend time with my friends, I find that more often than not, the topic of discussion is one of […]

-
00:00
00:00
Update Required Flash plugin
-
00:00
00:00