So a while back I wrote about the “Rage Day.” Today I bring you, the Dark Day. Dark days are days when everything just goes…

I dyed my hair purple a couple of months ago (see above image). Sometime around Thanksgiving, I got it in my head that I wanted…

Well, kids, the great California experiment is officially over. Just in time for the holidays, Nick and I packed up the car and made the…

Do you ever have a day when you’re determined not to enjoy one second of it? Like it doesn’t matter what happens, if the clerk…

I just rearranged my desk. It was getting cluttered and needed to be organized anyway, but once I began shifting things around I just kept…

My friends always say this thing, whenever they (or we, or both) encounter something in “real life” for which school failed to prepare us: “Instead…

I am STUCK. About three weeks ago I had perhaps the most productive time of my entire life. Outlines were written. Schedules were made. Business…

As long as I live I’ll never forget the question he asked me. I don’t remember where we were—probably on our living room sofa. I…

Sometimes a very simple thing can change your life. It always happens quietly, not a lot of fuss or circumstance, but then one day you…

Raising a puppy has taught me more about myself than it has about raising a puppy. I, who have most frequently found myself playing the…