Where Can I Lay Down the Weight of My Desires?
The mythmaking oracles have fallen out of style.
Frances Ha: Female Adulthood As Portrayed In The Moving Image
Sometimes, it’s not that we refuse to grow up. It’s
Eat Your Memories
Part food review. Part reflection on the ties that bind.
To The Restaurant That Ruined Mother’s Day Surprise: I love You.
Instead of “I love you” we say, “I bought you
To The Restaurant That Ruined Mother’s Day Surprise: I love You.
Instead of “I love you” we say, “I bought you
The Courage to Suffer: Viktor Frankl’s Formula for a Meaningful Life
The love that Frankl writes about isn’t bound by physicality
What Are Your Top 10 Feel-Good Comfort Shows and Movies?
I am glad to have come of age in the
In Honor of Female Friendship This Galentine’s Day
But for some of us, our greatest love stories will
What Would You Grow In Your Garden?
Instead, it is a tension in the air, a sensation
Field Notes On Being
The newsletter is a space for reflections on culture, personal growth, and showing up meaningfully in the world. Think of it as a living archive of curiosity, connection, and discovery.
What Are Your Top 10 Feel-Good Comfort Shows and Movies?
I am glad to have come of age in the tail end of cable TV. Life back then was unencumbered
In Honor of Female Friendship This Galentine’s Day
But for some of us, our greatest love stories will be afternoons spent running errands side by side each other,
What Would You Grow In Your Garden?
Instead, it is a tension in the air, a sensation capable of contracting and expanding into the realms of what
When It All Feels Too Much…
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. Life can sometimes feel like it’s
Attention Is Generosity: Why Our Attention Span is ‘Decreasing’
The French philosopher Simone Weil meditated in her notebook, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
How Do You Define Success?
We have to put up with the messy middle. And, often, when we do, it may just surprise us how
Inspirational Comics: Whatever You Dream You Can Do, Begin It
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!
“I Suck” and Maybe That’s Okay—Consistency Over Perfection
Should perfection even be your aim? Or is our definition of perfect, like many things, overused and overrated?
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Reflecting Life Through Death’s Lenses: Bronnie Ware on The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the
5 Steps to Create Systems in Your Life
The way we walk, sleep, stir our tea echoes the same kind of individuality that
Is 2022 Your Year? Reframing New Year’s Resolutions and Why They Fail
Be honest, have New Year Resolutions ever worked for you? To welcome the one celebration
War of Art: Overcoming Resistance and Doing the Work
When you finally cross one thing off your list, another task comes along. It’s a
The Puzzle of Living: Victor Frankl on Meaning, John Lennon’s Beautiful Boy, and Life That Grows Through The Cracks
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What Gets Us Through Hard Times? Notes On The Work, Creativity, and The Human-ness Of It All
Take every single thought leader our generation has had the opportunity of knowing—Marie Forleo, Simon
The Two-Minute Rule to Beat Procrastination
The slump, I’ve discovered, isn’t a hole. It’s a ceiling, and it always comes when
“Beware of Idiots” and Six Other Things a 20-Year-Old Should Hear At Least Once a Year
One evening, as I was preparing to fall asleep, my brain decided it was the