April, 2015

As a yoga instructor, I have come to love my breath. When I was an endurance athlete, I understood the importance of the respiratory…

If you are community-minded, it’s energizing to get involved with a project or nonprofit and use your abilities to successfully reach the organization’s goals….

Too often I find myself hearing what a person is saying but not really listening to what she is saying. As a social worker,…

There is something very exciting about building or renovating your own home. My boyfriend, Josh, and I were thrilled the day we drove our…

I’m what you’d call a jetsetter. For the past three years, I’ve been based in Seattle with a musician boyfriend in Montreal. The reasons…

One of my favorite and earliest cooking memories is of baking a cake with my grandmother. My little sister was bouncing around our feet,…

My family and I are fortunate enough to live near a large reservoir. No one is allowed to swim in it, but we are…

It was girls’ night, and I was the first to arrive at our favorite cozy, dimly-lit bar (Beecher’s, of course)…which gave me more time…

For those who thrive on flux, flow, and fluidity. The Renaissance was a period of awakening after the Middle Ages. What began as a…

Kathrine Switzer began running at a time when “cool girls looked great all the time; they did not run.” In fact, commonly accepted myths…

It’s funny how you can walk past a thing hundreds of times but not really see it. Last week I admired—for the umpteenth time—the…

If you’re anything like me, you love nothing more than to host your family and friends whenever you get the chance. But let’s be…

On the day I left to study abroad for a semester in Cork, Ireland, my uncle said to me, “Do things there that you…

I work in an industry that is almost entirely reliant on personal connections. And, given that I am tormented by the same anxiety as…

“Do not leave the arena to fools.” –Toni Cade Bambara What a beautiful thought. And a powerful message. To not just participate in the…

The last period bell shatters my eardrums as my sixth graders file out the door, and I begin to feel a heaviness settle in…

I love how birthdays are celebrated in the workplace here in Germany. Every single person in the office, even the ones you don’t see…

Once upon a time, I was the girl who hated group projects. I believed that if I wanted something done right, I should do…

“Is anybody hurt?” I had a yoga teacher in college who started every 8:00 a.m. class with this question. Students were hesitant to respond,…