Entries by Pilar Gonzalez

The Dos and Don’ts of Gym Going

Here we go again, you tell yourself as you climb atop the dreaded gray exercise mammoth, just barely stretching your muscles the five seconds before mounting it. I’d better do some more of these, you think as you recall the week and half of stabbing pain you withstood when you forgot to roll your ankles […]

Why Social Media Has Made Me Less Social

Since the beginning of time, people have created ways to share stories and information. To cut corners a bit, we had verbal storytelling, cave paintings (among other things), and eventually the written word. At first, people used stories as a form of entertainment and a tool for unwinding at the end of a long day. […]

Dating an Actor Part 1

With all the showmances, talent, the constant rejection, and the “wait, was that a real kiss? BITCH BETTER STEP BACK!” onstage kisses, dating an actor is hard. Like, really hard. So hard, in fact, that one of my most frequent questions-to-self is, “Why am I doing this to myself? Do I realize what I can […]

What Do I Do With All This Energy?

We dispel so much energy into the universe at all times and we don’t even realize it. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been sitting at my computer all day (doing both productive and unproductive things) or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve had twelve ounces of hard, purple liquor in the past hour that’s […]