don’t try to leave, try to stay.
From: Joy Williams' interview on Medium "Nate and I had hit a glass ceiling. In life, everybody hits a glass ceiling. What you do next...


The Luxury of Parents Being Friends with their Children
I've come across this wonderful article on the Elephant Journal that explains how some parents just seem to have a closer bond with their...
Postal Problems
Had an important document from Germany sent through Deutsche Post. Upon checking online tracking, the Deutsche Post site let me know that...
Shopping Sweatshop
This hits me in the feels because I'm a sucker for cheap clothing. I've always felt conflicted about sweatshop factory-produced clothing,...
One of the hardest parts of growing up
is having to switch your colorful sugary cereals of adventure for whole-grain, pale, tasteless oats or seeds or whathaveyou that make...
To a better you
Be so generous in spirit, that you may derive joy and happiness from others' successes, from others' triumphs, from others' good fortune....
Pet peeves: a list
1. single-ply toilet paper 2. passive aggressive comments 3. inconsiderate actions, or lack thereof 4. sweet frozen yogurt 5. rubber...


On chores and mindfulness
You know how there are certain things you learn after you move out of the house? Well, I realize there are also certain things you learn...


To the boy who smiled,
How could I have known that that same smile would captivate me and will for me to long to see it, to make it so it would never fade, to...


5 things you learn when you're in a long-distance relationship
There are two opposite spectrums of couples' thoughts on long-distance relationships, fondly called by some as "LDRs". On one end, that...