Noah Michelson

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we're sharing some of our favorite — and most unbelievable — personal essays.

We may be living in Hell, but that doesn't mean we have to like it, accept it or surrender.

"Let us never stop fighting... even when the end of the world finally arrives."

“Did your dad pass recently, Noah?” the medium asked. “I think this is him and he has a message. Do you want to hear it?”

“Her songs spoke to me about my own life in a language I instantly understood. It was like every light in every gloomy room in my body suddenly came on.”

“After all we’ve gained, I naively never thought we’d find ourselves here.”

From haunted houses to cheating husbands, here are a few of our favorite essays published on HuffPost Personal in the past year.

I spent months writing letters to God begging him to make me straight. When he didn’t, I decided to take matters into my own hands.

Betty White chalked up her happy life to kindness ... and hot dogs. Here are a few other ideas to consider trying as we begin 2022.

“Did your dad pass recently, Noah?” the medium asked. “I think this is him and he has a message. Do you want to hear it?”

Joci spent her entire life thinking something was wrong with her. When she learned there’s a word for her romantic orientation, everything was different.

From offering anal botox to performing anal surgeries, Dr. Evan Goldstein is dedicated to making the world a more beautiful place -- one anus at a time.

The moment wasn't just huge for the pop star -- it was also huge for the statement it made.

Not having your chicken sandwich sucks, but not having equal rights sucks even more.

The pop star opens up about meeting the country legend and the influences behind her gorgeous new Nashville-inspired album.

For starters, she’s calling for the Recording Academy’s “sexist, misogynist” president to step down.

Too few of the conversations that need to be happening are happening.

“It’s crazy that we have to go to these extremes but this is the culture that we’re living in.”

"When non-disabled people read that stuff, it helps them see sex and disability as more than just two people in chairs getting it on."

How do you draw the line between not wanting to live anymore and wanting to die?