[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I went to a new dentist the other day. I hate going to the dentist, but I especially hate...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] My elementary school band teacher hung a poster in his classroom that read: "Don't make...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I knew someone once who was not a friend but not not a friend, and they happened to...

[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.] 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 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 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 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.] My boyfriend has a Rae Dunn mug that says "you grow girl" on one side and a cactus on the...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I listened to a podcast awhile back about a guy who lived alone in the forest for 42...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Sometimes, when I meet someone new, I tell them about the deep, dark hole that was my...

[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 was running up one of my favorite mountains in the rain. I love running in the rain,...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I'm so tired, I thought to myself. Tired of fighting my demons, tired of pushing my...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "Holy titties," I thought, "It's almost Christmas." When I was a kid, I would count down...

[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.] "I hate people," I told my friend the other day, "I really, really do." "I hate people,"...