Donating your time to through volunteer work is a fantastic way to be the change you want to see in the world. …

I don’t care how it looks— staying home with my children was worth it — Nothing I did in the second half of my 20s was resume-worthy. My 30s were headed down the same path, but I was ready to change that. When I dusted off my LinkedIn profile hoping to return to the workforce, employers were understandably nervous about an undocumented decade. Where had…

It’s madness! — Every year around this time, knitters start googling “When is March Madness?” not because we care about basketball (it is for basketball, right?) but because we’re trying to gauge how much time we have left for yarn shopping before the biggest, most competitive, most carpal-tunnel-inducing event in the crafting world. …

If I had built these skills before graduation, I’d’ve become a much more successful writer — Hello, class! It’s me — well, actually, you — from the future. Yes, it’s true. Time travel’s been invented, college is in the rear view, and you’ve been a hired pen for a few years. You even wrote a book! Congratulations! But this praise is only half-deserved because you really…

I have less than 2 weeks to up my follower count, but do I really want to? — True story: As of February 17, 2022, I have only 83 followers on Medium and write behind the paywall. I see you out there. You’re either getting ready to flag me for gaming the system or dying to see how I did it so you can be a cheater, too. …

What right did I think I had to call myself an author? — After a posting a half-baked selfie with my newly-published nonfiction piano maintenance book on social media, I received a text from an acquaintance. Did I have any extra copies on hand, and would I be willing to part with one? Did she even have to ask? There was a short…

An evocative tour through Europe’s rarest, most extreme landscapes — I have never seen Scotland’s arctic or the ancient forests of Poland. But after joining Nick Hunt on this handpainted tour of Europe’s rarest landscapes, I can almost imagine. Outlandish is the sort of niche travelogue that just begs for adjectives. Words like profound, evocative, exquisite, humbling, urgent, and flowing…