The simplest path to living a life you love is to love the life you live. Here are 5 ways you can make your life more lovable this week. I wrote them just for you but it’s okay to share if you feel like it. 1. Be more selfish about your time When you take [...]
Here are a few true beauty tips from the inexhaustibly splendid Audrey Hepburn. At least, a bunch of people said they were her words until facts proved otherwise. Consider everything from this point forward her words as discovered around the web but, it turns out, gleaned from others who likely stole them from somebody else. [...]
Have you ever thought about how much of our identity is defined by numbers? Social Security, driver’s license, phone, credit card, salary… Numbers can reveal a lot about a person, but those aren’t the ones that do it. Here are some of the numbers that define my life: 36: age. 5-4. Height. (Mumble mumble144mumble): my [...]
When Rainbow Girl was two, she started picking up trash – sticky candy wrappers, crumpled bags, dented cans. She had an uncanny eye for litter, for anything that didn’t belong in her world of otherwise-green. It wasn’t long before we started calling her The Lorax, after Dr. Seuss’ “mossy-bossy” environmentalist. She hugged trees. She squished [...]
In our consumerist society, we fixate on getting things, and often forget that everything has a limit – there is a limit to how much money, time, and energy we have to spend. Instead of figuring out what else we need to get, it would probably do most of us good to think about what [...]
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt We [...]