In the fall of 2007 I made a decree to my family: “I will not be celebrating Christmas this year,” I said authoritatively. “I’m not going to get you anything, and my gift to you is that you don’t have to get me anything in return....
One of the benefits of getting older is the ability to look back on your life with a certain understanding and perspective about how the different choices you made delivered you right to where you sit at this exact moment. As you’re reading this – as...
People say I’m intimidating. A good friend recently told me she doesn’t feel like she knows me very well despite having traveled together to another country and knowing each other for years. I’ve heard this for much of my life actually. “You’re intimidating.” In high...
Awesome poster from Ork PhotosAhh Seattle. The land of perpetual rain and grey skies where sunshine dare not enter. Home to tech giants Amazon and Microsoft and the awkward tech-nerds who come with them. A city of hipsters wearing socks with sandals and talking about...
We all want to be happier. It just so happens that how to be happier is more simple than you think. We’re busy. Things move fast. A problem only compounded with increased age and added responsibilities. Our online lives are supposedly helping us in this...
Remember when you were a kid? You’d wait all year long counting down to the last day of school. Then, with great anticipation the last bell of the year would finally ring. You’d run out, blasting through the double doors, and immediately begin unabashedly...
