[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.] 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 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.] "You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I feel like I was just turning 25, and here I am, turning 29. The last year of my 20's...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] The other day I drank 8 ounces of dry white wine and read through notes I'd written in...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] There are 1.386 billion (yes, billion) people using Instagram. Say what you want about...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "She's losing them," I thought to myself. I was sitting beside one of my colleagues at a...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] At the end of 2020, everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, like "thank God we...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I would like to thank the random internet stranger friend who gave me both the idea for...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Once upon a time, I dated a man-child-thing who was lovely in some ways but prone to...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Did anyone else just wake up and realize that it's the end of 2021? I said that to a...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I was very excited and more than a little caffeinated, so I bit my knuckle. Because I...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] The other night, I stayed up too late crawling through Google, looking at beds. My search...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] When I was a small child, I had a collection of lip balms, each one a different bright,...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] “You have been impatient,” said my father, “since the moment you were born.” I exited my...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] The other night, I had a dream that there was a demon living in my basement. I don't even...