by Alicia | Sep 1, 2015 | CRAVE Online
My 75-year-old dad and I drove a 14-year-old gold Mercury Sable station wagon from Chicago to Los Angeles. In its teenage-length car lifetime, it racked up only 80,000 miles. Dad gifted it to me instead of the car dealership that offered him a mere $1,300. Some time...
by Alicia | Aug 13, 2015 | CRAVE Online, Writing
I arrived at a weird point the other day, finally admitting to myself that I am addicted to Tinder. I have a tendency to become really focused on things in order to understand them — I prefer to learn through experience — and so Tinder was no different than any other...
by Alicia | Jun 25, 2015 | Columns, CRAVE Online, News, Writing
Seinfeld is a show that’s inevitably about nothing and everything, an endlessly fascinating and frustrating show about the complexities of interpersonal relationships, coincidences, and people who care about each other but are also totally self-involved. In Seinfeld’s...
by Alicia | Jun 25, 2015 | CRAVE Online, News, Writing
I messaged her on a Sunday morning. We’d matched the previous day, and I was curious to get a chat going — I actually felt motivated to try and physically meet someone off Tinder. She wrote back, addressing me by my first name instead of a more generic “girl” or...
by Alicia | Jun 24, 2015 | Columns, CRAVE Online, News, Writing
There are three ways to approach someone on Tinder after you’ve matched: Say some variation of “hey, how are you?”, send over a compliment based on an image, or ask them a question based off of the photos they’ve posted. It’s hard to start up a conversation with a...
by Alicia | Jun 24, 2015 | CRAVE Online, News, Writing
It was time for my Uber and Lyft adventures to come to an end. I did the numbers and learned that I couldn’t afford to pay for a car service everyday. But before I decided to call it quits with the car companies that fulfilled my temporary (albeit...
