[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I never knew what I wanted to be, which is probably how I ended up being a writer. I grew...

[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.] "Are you first class?" a man asked me at gate 42 in terminal A at the Atlanta airport. I...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "I really don't like this," I said out loud, to myself, around mile 47. The Nevada heat...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "I can tell the darkest and most terrifying truths about human nature with zero...

[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.] There is no easy way to describe my experience in the Copper Canyon. Whatever I write...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "What are you going to be for Halloween?" my friend asked me. "Gone," I replied. "I'll be...

[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.] For a very long time I tried to be someone I wasn’t so that people would like me: so that...

[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.] I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the TSC Him & Her show, when one of the...

[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...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I moved to California in July of 2017 with my ex-fiancé and our very verklempt cat. We...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "What should I do??" my friend asked me. She was feeling torn between spending a weekend...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] My first full time job was at a nonprofit on the South Side of Chicago. I was hired as a...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] On June 7, 2019, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed new abortion legislation that was set...