I'm pretty much the Diddy of the blog world. I wait for you to forget about me completely, then BOOM. I bust back onto the scene. It's been a while, huh? The...

It happened nearly a year ago now and seemed innocuous enough. It was April. I had just heard National Book Award nominee Min Jin Lee kick off Boston's "Muse...

Heat the kettle. Grind the beans. Pour the water over the grounds. Wait for it to steep. It's a lot more work than dumping a few spoonfuls of Folgers into a ...

If you've followed the news at all (or really just logged on to any social media site for even a nanosecond), you know this year was really just one dumpster...

I am a Millennial, the generation which (according to Google's autocomplete) is ruining cheese, the workplace, Applebee's, vacation, Thanksgiving, brunch & t...

Ask someone how they're doing, and they'll probably give you some variation of "busy." "Good," they might say. "Busy." Or else it's "Ugh. Busy." Or maybe it'...

And I have to be okay with that. When I submit a story to literary journals, maybe no one will publish it. When I query agents, maybe no one will decide to t...

I'm bad at being sick. Though I was never particularly athletic growing up, I've somehow adopted a hard-nosed coach's perspective on illness — I rub some met...

This past Sunday, my husband and I had a conversation we've had many times before. "So who are you meeting with again?" he asked. "Someone looking for advice...

I have an app on my phone that tells me things about you — how exactly you are growing, new sensations you are feeling. This week, the app tells me it’s loud...

Below is a copy of my latest (and first ever) newsletter — "Highly Caffeinated". Not signed up for my newsletter? There's a link in the top right corner of t...

Truth of the matter is, you can say whatever you want, but how you spend your time is the real indicator of what you value. AKA you can claim something is a ...

And it’s gonna take more than that to guarantee your success, too. In my experience, these are the two things that young people need to hear more than anythi...