Quotes about fashion are meant to be inspiring. I’m a fan of anything that encourages people to show their individuality. I am not a fan the snobbishness that is so often the undercurrent of what’s being said in fashion publications. This is nothing new. Mainstream fashion media feeds off this attitude, probably because it works. […]
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I Ate a Whole Box of Mac n Cheese, Now What?
I ate a whole box of Mac n Cheese the other night. We all do it. They key, my friends, is to acknowledge and move on. It’s what resilience is all about. If you’re like me, you made the mac n cheese out of sheer exhaustion, with the intent of eating a normal, single human amount. […]
How to Dress for Joy
When my daughters were two and four years old, they went through a fairy phase. I don’t mean they liked fairy toys and drew pictures of fairies—I mean my daughters believed they were actual fairies. And who was I to convince them otherwise? During the fairy phase, the only thing my daughters ever wanted to […]
10 Pet Loss Quotes that Don’t Suck
Pet loss quotes are tricky. As soon as you hear about a friend’s beloved pet dying, your urge is to ease their pain right away. Now. This is how I felt recently when my friend’s 13-year-old, toothless, cute-as-hell little companion passed. But it’s important to honor the bond between pet and person without sounding patronizing, insensitive […]
How to Pack Light: The Single Hack that Works
I’ve been on a mission to learn how to pack light for the last year. I got a taste for it after becoming a mom, and going from having a purse full of stuff for myself, to a backpack full of stuff for my son, and nothing but a super practical wallet and phone for […]
Networking for the Introvert
This is a guest post from Alissa Carpenter, Career Discovery and Personal Development Coach, and founder of Everything’s Not OK, and That’s OK, a site full of awesome resources, workbooks, and educational materials. She has a down-to-earth and creative system for networking, and she was kind enough to share it with us here. I attended […]