I’ve become a fierce advocate for a morning routine. It started when I was unemployed in 2018. I told people I was starting my own business. And I went home and sat on the couch day after day, staring out the window. It didn’t help
It’s the time of year when people start to think about making New Year’s resolutions. But since 2020 was such a dumpster fire (someone literally invented an emoji for it), some of us are feeling the 2021 hope more than ever. The changing of the
I worked at a summer camp as a teenager. I was working in the kitchen one week for a family camp when an older woman, a camper in her 70s, picked up a broom, and started sweeping the dining room. I took the broom from
1:00 am. My thirtieth birthday. I sat on a balcony near Frankfurt, Germany. As luck would have it, I celebrated my birthday doing something I’d always wanted to do but was always too afraid. I moved abroad. It was the night after we landed in
This post was inspired by a career cliche, and to be honest, I just had to take it on. As a kid, I remember being told, “Follow your dreams.” In fact, it kind of feels like a bad bumper sticker or one of those cheesy
I left for university on a sunny, August afternoon. I was at the wheel of my parents’ chevy Astro van. A wooden trailer swayed along behind us, overflowing with my worldly possessions held down by a blue tarp. We hadn’t gone more than ten minutes
In dedication to finding your passion, if you want, if you believe in the sort of thing… no pressure. 5:30 am. I run to catch the huge coach bus into the city. Still dark as the bus pulls up on the quiet street and lets
Want to know the hardest thing about reinvention? The shame. I spent most of my youth and all of my adulthood until I was in my mid twenties as an evangelical. It wasn’t something I ever wanted to leave. Unlike most kids, I didn’t question
If we’re talking life lessons, I still remember when I learned how valuable my humanities degree was. I was standing under the July sun in Northern Ontario. I wiped sweat out of my eyes with my sleeve as I yelled into my handheld radio. In
Have you ever googled this question? “What degree makes the most money?: Each year, new lists come out of the highest-paying degree fields for that year. Sometimes, we see the list for the lowest-paid too. These types of lists create one of the dumbest phenomena
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