Writer on the search for kindness. | Traveling, exploring, scribbling, finding sunshine wherever I go.
C'mon. I'd be lying if I said that "treat yo' self" wasn't my very favorite phrase in the entire world. It is. I even hung the words up at our wedding, above our donut bar. And now the sign hangs up in my office, right above my desk. It's a kind and zesty reminder of…
Does this spark joy? From now until the end of time, this is the only question that truly matters to me. I can thank Marie Kondo for this revelation; her new Netflix series, Tidying Up, asks participants to go through their possessions and pick them up one-by-one and ask that simple question. Now, I can’t…
The seasons heavily influence my mood. It's not necessarily a clear-cut "today is a bad day" when the clouds are overcast, but it's like there's a gloomy filter placed on my body, especially as wintertime casts its shadow. Winter is not my favorite time of the year. I get cold easily (did you know that…
I don't really think about being happy anymore. It's just not something that I regularly check. I am more in tune to other realities, like busyness, laziness, or whether or not I'm being enough of an adult. Stress is on my mind a lot. Sometimes there's longing. But rarely do I pause and point out…