Gretchen Rubin has been a mentor of sorts to me for a long time. I used to listen to her podcasts on my 45-minute both ways, every day commute to and from UT. One of my favorite principles of hers is to come up with personal commandments that bring you back to who you are. [...]

My personality type is 100% WOUND TIGHT. I take everything to heart. I worry immensely that every single decision, no matter how minuscule is the absolute right decision. This has very rarely come in handy in my personal life. It takes me no less than 3 months to decide on something as simple as the [...]

After a particularly trying morning of running errands (rain, grumpy people, chaos and disorder, general errand annoyance), I unlocked the back door and set Hazel down over the baby gate so I could disrobe from the layers of sopping clothes that were chilling me to the bone (hello, April). The moment her tiny wellies hit [...]

There is something that has long inspired me about the daily journal Erin Napier used to keep up on her website. She used it as a way to highlight the bright spots in her days during a time when positivity was hard to come by for her. Which is exactly where I am. In a [...]