There I was, mid-conversation, saying something I’d said a hundred times before, when I realized it was a lie....
Last year was one of the hardest years of my life.
Between navigating my mom’s decline into dementia and what...
I never imagined I’d stand so close to a cheetah that I could reach out and touch it.
These were the kinds of...
October leaves are changing from green to gold, orange and red, so vibrant they appear to be emanating light f...
It all starts casually. You open your phone to check a few IG messages, laugh at the video your friend sent yo...
“I’m tired!” my client blurted out.
“I’m so damned tired of all the things I need to do. And the thing is,” s...
The ideas seem to be gone, I thought. Just a blinking cursor. I wait, but the only thing that comes to me feel...
I was standing in the kitchen, rolling a burrito for dinner, asking my youngest to turn off the TV, when I rem...
I scroll through my Substack feed and see a note: “Feeling like my life is falling apart in midlife.” And the ...
Let’s take ourselves back to 1994 and learn from one of the least predictable teachers: George Costanza.
Jerr...
I peeked out the tiny window on the top floor of our 15th-century Airbnb and saw the Santa Maria del Fiore fro...
My spoon folded the egg whites into the zabaione when my throat tightened and my eyes started to sting. I didn...