Our brains are built to find shortcuts. These shortcuts minimize the processing power that we waste on routine things. However, they can also get us stuck in ruts. Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray Love was all about travel as the…
I love my bedroom and the one thing that I love doing in it is lying in bed. I can lay in my bed all day long because not only do I have a great mattress, but my pillows are…
“Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays ‘Cause no matter how far away you roam When you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze For the holidays you can’t beat home, sweet home” Those are some of…
Having lived in New York City for most of my life, the holidays including Thanksgiving was something that I always looked forward to. Our family would make the trek to Manhattan from our home in Brooklyn and go to every…
Do you keep a journal? To many of us, the idea summons up certain images: perhaps a pre-teen girl with a fluffy pen and braces, wistfully penning “Dear Diary” to divulge her innermost secrets and heartaches. Well, cute as that…
Writer’s block: that lack of creativity and motivation you need to write what you know you must write. Every writer struggles with it. And when it comes, it feels almost like running into a brick wall. Whether you are a…