Wow. They say that your first year is the worst of your career. They say that if you can make it through your first year without really wanting to throw in the towel, you’re going to be just fine.

I’m a novelist. Or at least I like to tell people that I am. Truth be told, I haven’t finished a novel since I was fifteen and living at home in my mother’s basement — literally. The hard drives of every laptop I’ve ever owned is littered with the carcasses of false…

While it (apparently) dropped on Netflix in mid-December 2018, everyone and their mother watched the movie Bird Box over the Christmas holiday break. The film was an internet sensation almost immediately. Official numbers from Netflix suggest that forty-five million people watched Bird Box in December, and we…

One of my most favorite podcasts of 2018 was “Happier with Gretchen Rubin.” Self-improvement, self-knowledge, self-compassion, and building an intentional life are areas of particular interest for me, and this podcast provides lots of research-based and anecdotal “happiness hacks” that have been really…