On Tattooing

At Yale, my favorite class was my senior seminar with all the other Religious Studies majors. We read canonical works…

Enjoy Your Fake-ation

A vacation is when you go away and do holiday activities. A stay-cation is when you stay home and do holiday activities. But when you go away and do normal things? Introducing: the Fake-ation.

Courage? What Courage?

This past weekend I was in a coaching workshop focused on creating a greater capacity to process your emotions. There…

Goodbye Perfect

I have a confession to make. It’s something that I’ve been trying to hide for a long time; something that I hoped you all wouldn’t figure out. In fact, somewhere along the line I convinced myself that you might not love me – and you might not even like me, if you realized the truth. So I’ve been ducking and weaving, hiding and covering things up as long as you’ve know me. But it’s time to let it out.

Does This Dehydrator Make Me Look Cheap?

Twelve hours of intense dehydrating following returning home from London – and realizing just how frugal I am.

Our Intentional Christmas

Our first holidays together bring decisions about starting our own traditions – some adopted from her family, some adopted from mine, some merged, some imagined anew.