If you Quit Smoking you are Very Intelligent

I read a research article the other day stating that hot baths could take the place of exercise.

It is true a hot bath burns calories, and lowers blood pressure, it helps with inflammation and overall improves your mood. But in the case...

Fifth grade. I was the new kid from Colorado, riding the bus home to the old farmhouse my parents had just bought us in rural Michigan.

The kids on the bus wanted to know all about the new girl, so they insisted on asking me probing questions like, “Do you believe in God?”,...

The Day the Guru Died

Have you ever fallen prey to someone you put on a pedestal? Entered into a relationship in which you worked to receive validation, to be worthy of their admiration and approval?

I spent decades pedestaling anyone I deemed prettier, smarter, or luckier. I had a...

One Sunday afternoon my five-year-old daughter decided to draw a butterfly. They’re her favorite subject to draw right now, as her imagination and coloring box have no limits and she can therefore curiously color infinite variations of the butterfly. But on this particular day, she opted to...

It is easy when the going is good or great to wax positive in poetry. When the ground beneath you is solid, those affirmations and manifestations work like a fucking charm and you think, “Man, everyone should step up to this plate because I am batting one hundred and they would too if they...

I have served as female anthropologist, a.k.a. a hairstylist for almost 20 years now.

I have seen 35 women a week on average for 19 years. That’s 31,000 conversations where we ladies speak of every controversial topic on the table.

Which means I have heard pro-life and...

Self-doubt is a pandemic.

The pathogen of this disease is the more than three thousand assaults of marketing and advertising picking at our philosophical pain points daily, resulting in an epidemic of self-doubt about not having enough or being enough.

The challenge isn’t...