I rolled over in bed to face the slumbering hulk of a man laying next to me. "I didn't get up this morning to work out." I said, my voice raspy with over-sleep. He knows this routine all too well; the constant internal debate I wage between always wanting to sleep more, and knowing I really need to just get my butt up to exercise before the demands of the day distract me. They say ...

I was recently reading a bit about feng shui, which, admittedly, I know next to nothing about (and still wouldn't voluntarily elect to say out loud for fear of incorrect pronunciation) when I stumbled upon a section devoted to the presentation of the front door. As the "mouth of the chi," the front door is apparently the point through which the entire house receives its energy, and thus, its appearance and situation has a drastic ...

If we could build the perfect house from scratch, what would it look like? What features would it contain? Let’s have ourselves a little daydream… As we all know--and as Adam and Eve knew all too well--once you know something, you can't un-know it. Unless, of course, the knowing concerns fluency in a foreign language, because I can personally attest to once knowing and now wholly, very much not knowing a scrap of French, Spanish, ...

We are forever overlooking what is most obvious; have you noticed this? The way we insist on the answer being hard-fought and the solution being nearly impossible to attain, you'd think we'd been brainwashed by expert marketers, and made to believe in the glamor and intrigue of overwhelming and unending Complexity. When we lose things, we inevitably spend innumerable frantic moments searching the most covert, hidden, and unlikeliest of places, usually to no avail. To ...

Happy hump day, tulips. I'm so excited to share that yours truly is featured over on Hello Giggles! For those of you who aren't familiar, Hello Giggles is a lifestyle website and virtual community created by actress and musician Zooey Deschanel, writer Molly McAleer, and producer Sophia Rossi in 2011. In other words, it's like a totally, important site. The closet-centric story, produced (and animated via the perfect GIFS) by Anna Buckley, aims to uncover ...