Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. This time last year, I was finishing packing up my apartment in New York City after 12 happy years spent as a New Yorker. I left primarily because I needed a break from city life to recharge and figure out the next steps in my career…
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How to choose to be happier in our crappy world (VIDEO)
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Happiness is something that humans think about a lot. At least I do. For years now, I have been saying that “happiness is a choice and it’s a choice that I make (almost) every day.” That’s still true, of course, but sometimes that kind of thinking…
Here’s what happens when a writer has too many ideas
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. So if you’ve spent any amount of time around me in real life, then you probably know one thing about me: I get easily excited. I don’t know if I would consider myself a super impulsive person, but I’m not not an impulsive person. I think…
March 2017 Writer’s Life: My piece for VICE and Q1 totals [#yearofwriting]
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. If you’ve been following my #yearofwriting post here for the months of January and February, then you know that I am determined to do a LOT more writing this year and I’m also determined to track everything. This month, to be honest, hasn’t gone quite as smoothly…
Thoughts on turning 31… and the
future of Map Your 30s blog
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. When I first started writing about turning 30 years old and decided to create the Map Your 30s Blog, my idea was simple: I wanted to write about all of the changes happening in my life and I wanted to make the point that life doesn’t…