For the last 20 years, I’ve spent every December 31st thinking about how I can become the healthiest, best version of myself. Realistically, I’ve probably been doing this for longer than 20 years, but I think that the last 20 are the years that stand out the most. January 1st…

If you know a person who has experienced deep trauma in their lives, they likely have a story (or several of them) that they tell about themselves that keeps them locked in a destructive pattern of self-inflicted abuse. Most of these stories will involve addiction, and then if they’re lucky…

For the first five years of my 20’s, I worked as the manager of a mall information booth in Austin. I had a handful of employees and a random list of duties that changed depending on who was managing me. I reported to the Marketing Director of the mall and…

On this morning ten years ago, I woke up and said goodbye to my best (and my worst) friend. After 12 years of attempting to drink like a lady, I was finally willing to surrender to the fact that I was a slave to alcohol and that it was ruining…

It has been exactly four months since our last meal outside of our house. If you had told me then what our life would look like today, I may have packed my bags and left then. I like to think that I’m not a runner, but deep down in my…

When this is over, I want to go to a concert. My last concert was February 28. I sang songs that I loved twenty years ago at the top of my lungs with one of my oldest friends. …

All of the empty hotel parking lots and empty airports are getting to me. I want to lay on the floor of every airport that I’ve hated in my traveling life - Pray a pleading prayer to whomever is listening to please send back the people. I will not complain. …

I have to change my password at work every four months. Since 2011, I’ve always tried to pick a password that is a manifestation of things I want. At the end of last year, my password was FREEDOM2020. I was anxious about turning 40 in December, so I chose the…

So much has changed this month. It felt like it happened overnight. Each day gets weirder and weirder. Of all the days that I’ve spent on an airplane in 14 years of flying, yesterday was the strangest of them all. This is a hefty statement because I’ve had some wild…