One spring, the band Reel Big Fish played a show at a friend’s college. Each student got free admission as well as a plus one for the concert. To get me and another friend of ours into the event, I was going as the plus one of a friend of…

One of my best friends’ birthdays is on St. Patrick’s Day. As you can imagine, this leads to some spectacular shenanigans. One year, a group of us road-tripped to my foreign hometown of Chicago for a long weekend. The day of, we met up with a few more friends and…