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Ryan Gosling has a question for you, and he asked me to pose it in my blog this week: “Hey girl… I hear your relationship ended… how do you feel about that?” You see, Ryan knows that there are lots of different ways you could feel about that event. You could be relieved. You could…

When I turned 30, I told my friend, “Part of me thinks I should be married by now, I should have a house and settle down.” My friend looked at me like I’d just birthed an alien. She laughed and said, “Shoulds are lies.” I said, “What do you mean?” She said, “You’re lying to…

Let’s face it: I wish I had the superpower to make people happy. Do you ever see your friend in pain and wish it would just go away? I recently experienced some pain. Several people from my past came into town and didn’t want to see me. They actively avoided me. The news stung me…

On a breezy sunny day, I went rock climbing in Red Rocks with two extremely fit women who encouraged me to climb up a rock crack into a green gulch. I got halfway up the crack and started sweating, heart beating, legs shaking like Elvis. As they watched my every move, I couldn’t do it.…

Bilbo Baggins was tucked into his beautiful hobbit hole eating lamb and potatoes and drinking ale when he heard a knock on the door. It was… Dumbledore! I kid. We all know it was Gandalf, and that wizard rocked Bilbo’s world. Creatures started piling into the hobbit hole throwing food around and causing mass chaos.…

Let’s face it: I’m a whiner sometimes. My favorite topics to whine about: grading, grad school, my noisy neighborhood, paperwork, poorly written emails, email in general, grading, grading, and grading. Merriam-Webster defines whine as “to complain in an annoying way.” That’s me sometimes. Wah wah wah. My breathing gets shallow. My shoulders creep to my…

One of my best friends, Alisa, gave me a book to read called “Beautiful Ruins” by a man named Jess Alberts. The book is a 2012 “Notable Book of the Year” according to The New York Times, and was an NYT bestseller and notable book of the year according to 11 other publications. National Public…

When I first started dating my athletic adventuring partner Benson, we went winter camping with a group of people in Joshua Tree National Park. At night, I put hot water bottles in my sleeping bag to keep from trembling violently while laying on a thin mat that separated me from the cold ground. In the…

What if I told you that you were going to write an amazing book that sold a million copies and changed peoples’ lives… and first you were going to write three books that would not be so popular? Would you write four books? Why? Why not? Maybe you don’t want to write books. Maybe you…

When I read Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way years ago, a small quote in the margin caught my attention: Take your life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. – Erica Jong. I didn’t know if I liked the quote. It haunted me. But to this day,…