Walking through a college campus, I always smell a hint of cloves. I can't help but be surprised that people still smoke them -- I was similarly surprised to discover people smoked them at all. The first time I encountered clove cigarettes, in the first few furious days of freshman year, I thought they might …
Mr Brightside
Whenever the song by the Killers, 'Mr Brightside,' comes on, I am suddenly 18 again and waking up in my dorm room in Los Angeles as it plays on my radio alarm clock. I am not hungover – I didn't drink my freshman year – but I am exhausted from refusing to turn down any …
Unromantic Paris
Allow me to disabuse you: being broke in Paris is not romantic.When you look at your bank account and the euros in your wallet and realize you cannot make rent and still eat, there is nothing romantic about it. When you wander around the streets for hours on end in search of nowhere in particular, …
The Pixies
Whenever I hear anything by the Pixies, I am immediately taken back to being 16 years old, when I was a wannabe music nerd and my 21-year-old cousin – a real music nerd who was in a band in high school and now DJs cool parties when he's not being an award-winning photographer – whom …
Kate Thorman 