Two years as a vegan finally taught me to seek balance over restriction in my diet — I have been a vegetarian for nearly twenty years. It started in my childhood, at a grocery store in Vermont — pushed around in a shopping cart by my mom, we passed the butcher aisle and I asked her where meat came from. She answered, with horrifying honesty, and my…

Learning to embrace reluctant change after a global crisis — Have you ever wondered what it would be like to time travel? To possess the ability to travel into the past or venture forth into the future ​​in the blink of an eye — the stuff of science fiction legends. Until March 2020, that is. The global pandemic has been many things: a terrible tragedy, a complete disruption, a life-altering historical moment…

It's time to get inspired—and play with puppies. — Let’s all agree on one thing to start: building a successful writing side hustle is not an easy task. It’s an endeavor that requires time, energy, and a hefty bit of creativity — all of which can run in short supply during busy weeks that demand your best hours and…

And why you’re probably doing better than you give yourself credit for — I first stumbled across the term a few weeks after I started my first real, salaried adult job. …

You’ll need all three to build a flourishing writing side business — Picture this: it’s a weekday morning. A Tuesday. You wake up early and roll out of bed, sliding your feet into your favorite pair of worn-in slippers. …

Banish the hangover scaries with these 8 easy recovery tricks — “If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.” ― Matt Haig, The Humans It’s an experience many of us can admit to sharing: waking up the morning after, forced to confront your own mortality via pounding headache, upset stomach, and the dreaded…

If you want to be successful here… — That’s the question you should be asking yourself every time you write and publish an article on this platform. I’m a reader. I spend minutes — even hours — out of my day scrolling through my feed, looking for entertainment and information. What makes me click on a story? A…

It might be time for a change. — Physical exercise: the thing that keeps us moving, healthy, and happy. The constructive outlet we rely on for releasing our pent-up stress, our bottled emotions. Movement is its own kind of therapy — that’s why you go for a long walk to clear your head or hit the gym when…

If you've been waiting for a sign to adopt a dog, this is it. — If you could be a fly on the wall in my home workspace for a minute, you’d hear the soothing sounds of low-fi beats playing on Spotify in the room over. You'd hear the honk of a car horn as the light outside my apartment turns green. You'd notice the…