Am I hungry? Am I dehydrated? Am I cold? It’s incredible what a difference these basics can make on my attitude. Sometimes I search my […]
The Morning Ritual
As it stands, the ideal and the lately of my morning ritual: 5 am – The alarm. On my phone. Plugged in across the room. […]
Writing Update: Gift of Feedback
I was lucky enough to have two beta readers finish my latest revision and give me feedback this past week. One who’d read a previous […]
Tobio Kageyama
When things break, I am not always quick to fix them. I’m not speaking in metaphors here — I really do mean things. I have […]
Chalk One Up For Exercise
Let me tell you, after a 6-mile run this morning and two and a half hours playing volleyball this evening, the exercise has pretty much […]
Playing the Hero
It doesn’t have to be this way. Not eating or not eating properly with take-out containers lining my kitchen counter. A spiraled stress process that […]
Everything Is Figureoutable
This is the kind of mantra I need right now. I wasn’t familiar with Marie Forleo before listening to her book Everything Is Figureoutable (tagline: […]
The First Thing To Go
It’s groceries. When life starts overflowing a little, I mostly stay on the tracks. Save for turning into a full-on scavenger and piling up take-out […]
The Gap
I hear this quote all the time, but I still remember the first time I read it on Tumblr when I was a freshman in […]
Writing Update: Wrestling
The other night while fighting my weekly Sunday battle to fall asleep I turned over suddenly and flipped on my light. Grabbing my notebook that’s […]