What do email deliverability, spam filters, and finding your passion have in common? Sometimes you meet a person who is just so in love with their work, who truly loves what they do, and it inspires you. As someone who has never loved any job that I’ve had (until becoming a writer), I find people like Yanna Torry Aspraki fascinating. You may recall…

For many people it is the biggest transaction of their life — buying a house. Homeownership is also a huge part of the still-alive-and-well American dream, though it may seem out of reach to many in these days of higher interest rates and even higher housing costs. For me, maybe…

I had seen too much, yet somehow still had not seen enough. They were calling me back to Washington, D.C., yet I knew I belonged where I was. The truth was, I had never liked any job I had ever had and this one was no different. My one desire…

Just the thought of calling a person I don’t know gives me a case of the nerves. There’s something about talking, as opposed to writing, that just brings out the shyness in me. Since its creation, email was a godsend for someone like me. Not only did it eliminate the…

I remember when I graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in international relations. I would inevitably run into some recently graduated engineering student who would ask me, while I was ringing them up at the local record store, what degree I had graduated with. People in…

Life is Too Short to Stay Stuck or Hidden. Ailish Keating perhaps knows this better than anyone. About seven years ago, she developed a large lump in her breast that seemed to appear overnight. She had been going through a very a stressful period at that time. In addition to…

Staring blankly at the computer screen, I wondered for the umpteenth time how to explain that Jennifer Garner doesn’t really work at CIA Headquarters, that her character doesn’t actually exist, and whether there couldn’t possibly be a better use of my time as an intelligence officer than answering a flood…

Archie! Just Make it Up! …Archie wasn’t sure he could endure the nun with the paddle on this one. Pushing the thought out of his mind, Archie opened his laptop and made a decision. He would just make it up. That was it. …

There it is, in the pit of my stomach. A creeping feeling, perhaps best described as a feeling of dread, has crept over me each day from as early as I can remember. As an adult it made the simple process of getting out the door every day to go…