Welcome to 2021, and the Live Simply 2021 calendar! Each month of this year, in addition to a delightfully on-brand illustration (created for us by the illustrious Ariel Markowitz), we're giving you an intention word and a mantra to accompany it. Read it every morning. Read it multiple times per day if it resonates with you. Take a sharpie and write your own above mine. The point is to purposefully direct our minds through ...

    This year there were times when you felt like every person and every situation was an attempt to enrage you and make you take to your bed in perpetuity. But love the life you’re lucky enough to live anyway. This year, people let you down so hard. They acted carelessly. They were senselessly apathetic and grossly narcissistic. But love them anyway, not for them but for you. Because holding hot anger burns your ...

Not because you helped that lady pick up the coins she spilled on the ground that time. Not because you're in better shape than you used to be. Not because you earn a competitive salary. And not because you're hurting for a job. Not because of how well you can banter via text (that skill won't hurt, but still). Not because of how proud you've made your dad. Or your third grade teacher. Or your ...

Living in balance with stuff is my forte. I am what some might term "obnoxiously selective verging on compulsive" about the items that come into my world (no time for an ugly calculator around here). And so, I love what I own. Each individual thing is my favorite version of that thing. But if they were to disappear tomorrow, I know I would be fine. Things are just things. They come and go. They get ...

What I remember most about going over to my cousins' house when I was young was how noisy it was. How the honking shrieks of Disney movies would ricochet through the rooms at seemingly all hours of the day. Occasionally, my cousins would abandon the movies midway through; Aladdin or Ursula bellowing on in the empty room. With no one watching, the characters’ voices seemed even louder. Coming from Casa Kumbaya essentially, the noise was ...