My brother and I didn’t have the kind of parents who liked doing “kid things” with us when we were still growing up. They were especially averse to sitting through kid-appropriate movies, like cartoons or family films. …

I feel like I’m coming home after falling off the face of the planet and staying off it for a lot longer than I’d like. November of this year was a hectic but wonderful month that found me busier than I can remember being in a long time.

Among other…

When I was younger, I liked the idea of the holidays, but the reality of them was another story entirely. …

True story — my extreme introversion once made an extroverted neighbor so uncomfortable that she moved at her earliest convenience. That was new. …

Fiction

Most of us prefer to keep our hearts inside our chests, and with good reason. If you always know where yours is, you’re unlikely to misplace it when life gets a little hectic. Since your chest goes with you wherever your travels take you, so does your heart. …

There are many skills I wish I’d developed a lot earlier in life, but the ability to gauge another person’s character is perhaps one of the more important ones. I was far from perfect when I was younger and made plenty of mistakes, but I was a reasonably decent person…

Growing up, I was absolutely fascinated with foreign countries and cultures. Languages, people, food, music — if it had anything whatsoever to do with someplace other than where I was, I was all about it.

I’d spend hours and hours devouring books, movies, and documentaries about different places. And I’d…

A while back, I wrote a dating article called 8 Brutally Honest Reasons Why She Doesn’t Want to Date You. It was one of my first stabs at writing about relationships for myself (as opposed to one of my clients), and it was filled with things I’d always wanted to…