I don’t know when it happened — maybe somewhere between the late-night drives, the unhinged FaceTimes, or the moments where we were laughing so hard we couldn’t breathe — but my girlfriends quietly became the safest parts of my life. They’ve stayed through every version of me.Even the ones I wouldn’t have stayed for. They’ve…

There’s a certain kind of magic in traveling to small, quiet places with someone you love — the kind of towns where life moves slower and the nights feel longer, where even the silence has a softness to it. It’s about the way everything feels a little more intimate when the world around you is…