[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] In a book I read when I was very young, the author wrote about the "wheel of life."...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] This post is arriving a day late and a dollar short, which is both a common idiom and...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I sleep with a bear-duck; a dead-eyed teddy bear dressed in a kitschy duck suit. I found...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] People have swung around the idea for a long time that art is a privilege; that rich kids...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I once went on a date with a man who diagnosed my eccentricities succinctly, "You're an...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I grew up in a small town of about 1,200 people in rural Northwestern Wisconsin. There...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I really hate writing sometimes. Not because I write bad things (I do), or because I...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I'm on a tiny fishing boat, far from shore. So far that I can't even see the shore, so...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] If you're a person who's halfway concerned with health or fitness, you've likely heard...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Every few months, I spend a week tracking my spending to see how I might better spend or...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I could see the stars tonight. Well, not all the stars, but enough of them to notice...

[Listen to an audio version of my blog here.] "How fun you get to travel for work," said my friend, whose job does not require travel. I...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I've been writing/editing on a freelance basis for over 4 years now. At first, I was...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Sometimes, you just feel a certain way and can't explain it. When it's gloomy on the...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I have a B.S. and M.A. in English from Bradley University, a small private school in...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I took a new job last November (you can read about that job search process here). I had...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I was recently sent an article about how the body positivity movement has become toxic,...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I was twelve when I started running. My first running shoes were a heavy pair of grey and...