Month: February 2025


  • Setting the Record Straight on Life, Love, and Loss

    In response to A Reflection On Love, Loss, And What Remains “Dearest Emily, Indeed, it was time for me to move on from our life in Vermont. And you’re right, not all love is meant to stay put in one place forever. I know you haven’t made sense of my departure just yet but watch…

  • How Optimization Culture is Making Us Miserable

    Yet another AMAZING video from the incomparable queen of intentional living content, Kate Cassidy! In this video she touches on some incredible points about overcomplicating happiness and how our constant chase for overoptimized perfection often paralyzes us rather than improves our quality of life. Please check out her bi-weekly newsletter on media/tech literacy and personal…

  • Are Songwriters the Sages of Our Time?

    Today, influencers and self-help gurus seem to have become the new prophets. So, it’s almost quaint to consider that our deepest truths might be found in the lyrics of a rock song. Yes, the greatest wisdom of our era isn’t delivered from a mountaintop or between the pages of a bestselling novel. It can come…

  • Why Your Personal Traits Matter More Than You Think

    I was taught at many points in my childhood that character determines your fate. The common consensus is that nothing can be truer when it comes to your personal success and happiness. Ultimately, it’s not what you know or even how hard you work that determines your success – it’s who you are. If you…

  • An Interview with Photographer Emily Pratt Slatin

    “It’s the little things I see that most people don’t. Like the way birds fly backwards, forwards, and fall. How butterflies dance around in the air as if they’re weightless, and how flowers sway organically in the wind. Perhaps I care too much, and dive too deep.” —Emily Pratt Slatin Emily Slatin is a master…

  • My First Novel FOR SALE! Tunes and Tails: Purrfectly Prejudiced

    “Welcome to Catbridge High, where the battle of the bands isn’t just about winning over the crowd—it’s a fight for fame, fortune, and nine lives’ worth of legendary mischief. Enter Lunatics in Love, the feline phenoms with attitudes as sharp as their guitars and a playlist as chaotic as their lives. Tiffany Larsen, the band’s silver-furred siren,…

  • My Choice to Publish a Book Without an Agent

    Literary agents play an essential role in the world of publishing, providing a bridge between authors and publishing houses. I have all the respect in the world for the talented literary agents who turn writers’ dreams into tangible realities. But, while they have proven to be indispensable for many, some authors choose to forgo an…

  • Finding Greater Clarity to a Soundtrack of Birdsong and Rushing Rapids

    As inconvenient as it can be, it makes a great difference to sometimes retreat from the ways of the world to find greater clarity. Only when you turn off the noise and tune in to the rhythms of nature around you can you realize who you are meant to be all along. Prudence is a…