How Body Self-Consciousness is Dragging Us Down I saw a postcard on Post Secret today that hit home. (If you don’t know what Post Secret is, check it out here.) It showed a woman behind bars, but it appeared to be bars of her own making as it looked like a typical house behind her. The secret…

Only the special ones get a reread. — I’m always hesitant about reading a book a second time. I mean, I already know what is going to happen! Why read it? And yet, when the second read happened, I’m always surprised. Sometimes the scenes I remembered weren’t great, and I wondered, “Why did that scene stick in my…

I don’t think I can ever go back. — Years ago, I was browsing in a local bookstore. As I passed the “True Crime” section, I saw a massive book on the top shelf: an encyclopedia of serial killers. I’m barely 5', so there was no way I was getting that book down on my own. I took it…

The moral imperative of change and growth explained through my own experience. “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” ― Duke Leto Atreides, Dune by Frank Herbert I remember when my college boyfriend and I broke up. We dated for three years until he…

Discovering what makes you YOU. “For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now…

The Magic of Inside the Actors Studio’s Questionnaire. — When we see our favorite actors doing a late-night interview, we think we get a glimpse of the real person. According to an “Armchair Expert” podcast, Dax Shepard and Tom Hanks admitted that talk show interviews are a performance. …

It won’t stop menopause (nothing can), but it will cure your blues. I’m 49 years old. The specter of menopause is already at my door. I hear it howling at night when I try to sleep. I start sweating, throwing off the covers to expose my thickening waist and belly. …

Can you figure out which one is the lie? I learned of a new, interactive writing prompt from the wonderful Paul Combs (if your not following him, you need to fix that ASAP.) The prompt is to write three statements about myself. Two are the truth. One is a lie. …

You can’t. The intimacy of marriage is sacred. We’ve all compared our relationship to someone else’s. Or just looked at a relationship between two people and judged whether we would be happy like that or not. …