A Touch of Bold Blog

  • Love, Loss and What We Ate

    Love, Loss and What We Ate

    From watching her host Top Chef and conduct interviews all these years to following her on Instagram, I adore Padma Lakshmi. However, I fell in love with her today during her interview with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle as she discussed surprisingly becoming pregnant in 2009 and not knowing who the father Read more

  • Our Friend’s Relationships Are Not Our Own

    Our Friend’s Relationships Are Not Our Own

    I sat with my friends in college talking about our dating lives. We discussed how we hoped we’d actually like whoever was lucky enough to date our friend – approve of them. After all, if our friends are our true soulmates, then shouldn’t we approve of who they end up with? But as my friends’ Read more

  • Try Harder

    Try Harder

    I believe people are doing you a disservice in your career when they tell you to expect what is historically standard. Does that mean I shouldn’t want more for myself? Everyday there are people breaking new ground and defying the norms and expectations set for them. Is this person telling me that I can’t be… Read more

  • 5 Years Out as Gay – Beyond a 17 Years Old’s Love

    5 Years Out as Gay – Beyond a 17 Years Old’s Love

    Five years later, I think how awed, at points disappointed and overall proud a younger Jarryd would be of what’s transpired since then. If I could tell him what I know five years later, it would be… Read more

  • I Didn’t Want to Go Back to New York

    I Didn’t Want to Go Back to New York

    Standing with my friends in Atlanta, I didn’t know what happened to the last six months of my life. It seems like I was just here, but in reality, everything had changed in these past months, which seem like longer. I looked at them contemplating never going back to New York, because my body was Read more

  • Brunch Talk

    Brunch Talk

    ….She told me over dinner Thursday — you never want to think that you’re the cuter one in a couple. You want people to tell you that, but you don’t want to think that yourself. Read more