Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Confession: I’ve been trying to grow out my hair for almost as long as I have been an adult. It’s been a long journey, mostly marred by me also having a fondness for changing my hair color constantly. In college, I went from short and red…
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How my boyfriend got me to eat healthy again (and visa versa)
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Sometimes it takes falling in love to remind you of some of the things that are important to you. For me, that something was healthy eating. I have quite a complicated relationship with food. After a lifetime of being overweight, losing 90 pounds with Weight Watchers in…
Why is it so hard for us to accept true generosity when we date?
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I wrote this piece in a bout of excitement, elation, love, wonder, guilt and generally feeling both really happy and a little down on myself. It’s been a month and a half since that moment, but this still rings true. Enjoy! Tonight, as I lay in…
Why I’m happy that I failed at my July “writing every day” project
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I have always been one of those people that is much better at ideas than the actual follow through. You can probably ask any one of my friends about this. I can spend a morning coming up with 36 ideas to write about (as I recently…
How early is it TOO EARLY to travel in a (fairly new) relationship?
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. After dating for just over two months, Adam and I made a pretty monumental decision: we sent in our applications to get our passports renewed. You see, mine was due to expire and his had already been expired. I can’t quire remember exactly when in our…