“I’ve started interviewing for a new job.”

My good friend—a recent transplant to New York—was guzzling his enormous iced coffee. I stopped mid-sip on my soy latte.

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As I sat in the vacant waiting room outside my most recent audition, I couldn’t help but feel its walls daring to close in on me. The Senate Judiciary Hearings for Judge Kavanaugh and Dr....

Movement causes friction. Always. 

—Jon Maxwell.

I walked into the physical therapist’s office after four weeks of traveling, four weeks of dallying, four weeks of tallying up...

How to give the most valuable gift this year.

I watched a little boy open an early Christmas gift, yesterday, before a table full of friends and family. He unwrapped the paper-clad...

Are you operating from fear or love…?

I was at Universal Studios yesterday, walking amidst a myriad of families, couples, friends excitedly buzzing from one ride to the next. As I sipped my...

How to keep warm despite erratic weather patterns.

I flew from the sunny, seventy-four degree weather in San Diego, yesterday, to the bone-chilling, single-digit temperatures and eight inches of...

What we can learn from loss.

Our nation, our world, lost one of its icons this week with the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and his beautiful daughter, Gianna. The subject of death, of loss, of...

How much power are you giving away to other people’s perceptions…?

A friend of mine showed up to a party over the weekend with a bouquet of flowers for our hostess. Upon seeing the...

How to instantly soothe signs of physical stress.

Have you ever found yourself flipping through your calendar, your schedule, your to-do list—instinctively tunneling down the rabbit hole of...

How to rebuild crumbling relationships.

A feud between two sisters erupted at a nearby table in the restaurant at which I was dining yesterday. The volume of their voices was only surpassed...

How to stay on course when your itinerary changes.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE PART OF THE PANDEMIC: How to stay on course when your itinerary changes...

We are currently on a Carribean cruise, and...

How to survive the suffocating forest fire of fear.

I drove through a section of California land yesterday that had been, seemingly, decimated by fire. Trees were ashen skeletons of what they...