You are the boss of your to-do list, not the other way around. When I wake up, I take inventory of all the things I didn’t do yesterday. I don’t mean or even want to do it, but it happens reflexively, my anxious mind compiling a list from the remnants of everything I felt guilty […]
Live your own damn life. As a woman, I’m fully aware of how much we contradict ourselves. We say we want more time to ourselves, but then we RSVP to every halfway decent event on Facebook. We say we want to get healthier, but then we eat a whole bag of Doritos. We say we want […]
You are my art, my theatre, my story, my growth, my lesson learned. But you are not my secret. My mother always used to say our secrets made us sick. If I told a little white lie about the latest cafeteria meal, she’d tell me that my body was really the one who’d be sorry if […]
You know what else is true about criers? We laugh harder than most. We experience everything actively—with our whole hearts. The good and the bad, the fun and the sad. Most people understand the logic behind a good cry when things go badly, or when we’re mourning the loss of a job or loved one. […]
