My Personal New Year

Back in October, I circled today’s date on the calendar. Knowing that the next few months would be incredibly intense, I decided to opt-out of the traditional New Year’s planning process, deferring it until I reached a natural pause in my schedule. In...

Book Net-Out: Ikigai

  If my house ever gets robbed, I’m betting the burglars will be sorely disappointed – unless they were librarians in a past life. It’s pretty much full of books and not much else. I love to read. (My Mom, Dad, and Nana are the same way, so...

Just Start Again

  Falling down sucks, particularly if you’ve climbed a little higher since the last time you fell down. It hurts more. The bruises and scrapes are little deeper. Then the mental games begin. And they’re far worse than the physical ones. You did it...