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The Number One Question I Asked Myself Before Getting Married

When I was an awkward teenager at an all-girls Catholic high school, I attended a school assembly that I’ll remember for the rest of my...

What is Love? Baby, Don’t Hurt Me

There was a moment a few days ago, as I held my three-month-old son and told him I loved him, when I thought, “How could he possibly...

The Season of Giving: Help Me Help You Help Others (and You!)

One in 1,000. Those are the approximate odds of a baby having clubfoot. As we found out in the delivery room, our son was the one. Over...

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

"It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into." - Terri Guillements Here we go again with my being shocked that I...

How I Learned to Be Present by Flying Away—An Honest Look Back at 2017

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller's Day Off Wow, I can’t...

Why I Decided to Travel Solo—Even Though I’m Married

I once had a counseling professor who told our class, “The way you do anything is the way you do everything.” For the most part, I have...

Home Is Where the Rambling Is

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." – Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger I...

My Parting Gift to My Twenties is a Lack of Closure

I wanted to write a letter to my Twenties, explaining how “it’s not you; it’s me.” I wanted to give this fabulous decade of my life some...

Joy and Pain and Everything in Between

I'm turning 30 in a month and two days, and I can hardly believe it. It feels like this past decade has flown by. Having spent years...

There Are Worse Things to Be Than Breakable

At an event at The Museum of Broken Relationships tonight, I asked the artist Morley (whose work is featured in the image for this post)...

Be Weird. Be Loved.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix For a research class I'm in this...