Free Range Kid
Disaster zone
I once saw a statistic on Instagram—so you know it’s credible—that 85 percent of the things we worry about never happen. [...]
Grammar life lessons
There are few things that the world agrees on, but I think that a fairly universal opinion held by all genders, [...]
Five stages of Christmas grief
At first, I didn’t believe it. One day I was arguing with my mother-in-law about where you place soup spoons on [...]
Why actors act
I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe festival, where I was putting on a show I wrote. It’s the largest art [...]
Violet’s letter
A hiking boot tramples a violet, apologizes, and then has the naivete to think that is an end of the matter, [...]
Many changes
Let me turn the clock back four months, to a midwinter day in January. It’s a snowy morning in New York. [...]
Day of fears overcome
America is obsessed with “National __ Day” celebrations. When I first heard of one, National Ice Cream Day, I thought, “This [...]
Workout mat’s therapy session
The conversation begins this way, more or less predictably: “And how does that make you feel?” “Well, obviously not good.” “Expand [...]
The frosting first manifesto
To: Eat the Cake First and Save the Frosting, the Best, for Last, to the attention of the party chairperson Good [...]
I go to… America!
It hit me recently that while travelers and bloggers who fall for Italy can’t get enough of conveying their rapture, the [...]
The gridlock called regret
I wish I could tell you just which Los Angeles freeway I was on when, gridlocked, I took to pondering whether [...]
Reflections on rejection
When, regardless of the setting, people hear that I’m an actress, they usually have four comments that follow each other in [...]
“Free-Range Kid” Author

Eleonora Saravalle
Milan-born Eleonora Saravalle recently graduated from Brown and is an aspiring writer and actress based in Los Angeles.