How do you feel about presents? I tend to like them. My favorite categories: Surprise ones. In-honor-of-no-occasion variety. Simple and tremendously thoughtful type. My least favorite short-term but most favorite …
First, a positive thing. I would like to think in my forty-plus years I have gotten good at taking my time and trusting my process before I commit to something. …
About a week ago, my husband and I were having some wedding-anniversary inspired downtime by a pool. We were discussing destinations we would love to travel to someday soon. I …
Three-hundred and sixty of something is mostly a lot. Particularly when the thing you’re measuring are collections of days. Days being 24 hours tied together under a paired collection of …
6 Ideas I’m Carrying Forward A good friend recently asked me what I learned in 2017 that would be most helpful in the coming year. It got me thinking about …
Do you ever think, “this world was not meant to be viewed through a screen?” I had that thought recently. That thought came when I was looking at the world …
It was fifth grade and I had the toughest teacher in the school, Miss Tang. She was strict, she was stern. She had a method for everything and you obeyed …
What does it mean to Opt In? (<- This is not the question.) In my work as co-founder of Root + River, my fellow co-founder, Justin Foster, and I talk a lot …
My earliest memory involves my dad. In the memory, I am standing outside of my house in Cleveland, Ohio, on our lawn. I’m hurt and petulant about a dust-up with …
When was the last time you could not wait to leave the presence of another person? Do you remember when? Do you remember who? Do you recall that feeling of, ‘I cannot …
