Parents have to strive despite our knowledge that we will fail. Living with this cognitive dissonance is one of the hardest lessons of parenting, and one we can only embrace if we talk about our lives with all the doubt, nuance, and contradiction they actually encompass. Last year, in response to an influx of memoirs […]
I realized the fact I’ll do anything for the people I love is not a weakness, it’s my biggest strength. I was at a small house party with my best friend recently when he got far too drunk, far too quickly. Soon enough, he was slumped over on the ground, wearing his own vomit, mumbling […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. In trying to do everything, do we sacrifice the personal goals that matter the most? Most days I get out of bed at 5:45am and practice yoga. I do not leap or spring, in fact I’m a zombie until 7am, when BOOM! I feel […]
