Grace Lee Riley

The last time I was sick I remember lying in bed debating as to whether to muster enough strength to make it out to a grocery store for coug

Those in my insulated circle manage to hit varying points on the full range of the personality pendulum. But the standard deviation of chara

I remember like it was yesterday when I officially became a New Yorker: stampedes of students shuffling en masse into assigned dorms, me wit

The worst thing I have found is to just lie in bed, eyes wide on the darkness of the ceiling. Better distract the mind, get a cup of tea and

After a week-long date with a longstanding friend (for the sake of discreet nomenclature let's call him Alpha), I recall a comment he made

Lately, I've been facing hair-pulling professional obstacles causing my schedule to be littered with all-nighters. I recently had to initiat

In a recent exchange with a client, he disclosed that he almost made the mistake of never making contact because he was initially too "intim

By chance I recently came across this article, The New Midlife Crisis, and I want to share what was my vulnerable and uncanny reaction to it

Hello, my name is Grace and I am a strong, badass woman. It's a deep form of altruism that is at the root of what could be called my self-ob

Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl enjoyed a long run on the New York Times Best Seller list and there was a film adaptation released in 2014 b

Having personal brand equity means that one has created an identity around the self that is recognizable nearly to the point of being iconic

In my very first musing, I talked about fantasy and how fantasy can become reality when you commit to it. I would like to revisit and elabor

I come from the old school of love and seduction. I'm a Casanova-style fantasy figure who sweeps in from out of nowhere and miraculously pre

We all see the pervasiveness of slut-shaming and the unfortunate debasing that many women face when they exercise the right to feel empowere

Let's look at the construct of monogamy. At the very least, we can say that monogamy is the current cultural norm. Relationships that consis

To me, the “real world” is set up based on certain expectations of behavior correlating with certain environments. That doesn’t make them an

A rather eventful year is coming to a close and I find myself reflecting on the adventures I embarked in the past twelve months and the new