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Almost two years ago exactly to the day, I made good on a 20-year-old promise to myself to start a blog. I resisted and wrote, resisted...

"This isn't a spotless life. There is much ahead, my immaculate peach." - Cheryl Strayed "Where's the paper?" I asked my mother one...

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." — Marcel Proust One summer day twenty five...

"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." ― Jellaludin Rumi What’s got your attention...

If you show up to do what you're supposed to do anyway, is that a good enough reason to throw a party?

Hope keeps us going through difficult times. But sometimes, it's our hope that's keeping times difficult for us.

"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...

I love makeovers. I also love a hot pursuit. There’s something so tantalizing about transformation, the idea that, even in the smallest way,

I remember the rainbow umbrellas lined up in the hot sand. I remember the sound of the surf and the scent of faux coconut wafting from...

One warm summer evening around dusk, I took on the cool job of sitting at the helm of a small motorboat. At first, everything was easy.

The weather wasn't ideal that afternoon at the Portland Saturday Market. The vendors' tents sagged at the corners, weighed down by...

Have you ever been moved by kind words from someone you didn’t really know? I was at the donut shop one January morning when...

Forging a new career path in the midst of divorce negotiations. That's not what I had planned for my forties. What was I to do?

There are so many things that are etched into our bones. Skills. Stories. Intimate knowledge of people and places. The answer you seek may..

Most people intimately know the “New Year’s Resolution Effect.” That moment when the flush of momentum for something new meets formidable re

Have you ever lied, even a little bit, to help your chances of landing a job or making a splashy impression? Maybe you haven’t, but I have.

Once upon a time, there was a disaster of a refrigerator. This fridge, a proprietary design made to fit a certain model airplane...

Five days ago, I stood in line with my neighbors at the grocery store with more than twice as many items in my cart as the usual weekly run.