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It’s true. Doesn’t matter if it’s true. Hate them. “Just be yourself,” and “Do what you love and you’ll never work again,” and “Life begins where your comfort zone ends.” Cliches are like hit songs without a good hook. It’s like just hearing them triggers a muscle in the back of my eyes, causing them to roll…

You’d think I’d like book clubs. I mean, I like to read. I like small group discussions. But in the experiences I had with them (which were admittedly a long time ago), it got under my skin. I usually found myself in a roomful of people who were less interested in conversation and more interested…

I made my Canada TV debut this week! During the interview, the hosts of The Morning Show asked me what getting laid off taught me about following my passion. In a word? Nothing. That advice wasn’t helpful then, or really at any other time. First and foremost when you leave a job (or it leaves…

The best compliment you can get when someone reads your work is that it “sounds” like you. Why? Because it means you’ve channeled not just your ideas but your personality, your likeness, onto the page. That you’re literally true to your word. Doesn’t mean it’s easy, but it’s worth it. So I felt pretty great…

I could craft an entire scrapbook JUST from things I’ve learned and things I love about my friend Ilise Benun. One of the things she taught me to see different was…my own value, and why that was different from what I was “worth.” Because, of course, no one can tell you what you’re “worth.” They…

Wait, before you answer that. Let me ask you this: Where were you when you first heard of YouTube? The platform launched in 2005. I was working as an associate editor at Body+Soul magazine and YouTube was something I heard a few other editors laughing about over a cubicle wall. “Oh, it’s stupid,” my editor…

Your work is less a line drawing, and more like one of those Magic Eye posters from the 90s. You know the ones—they looked like a random, digitized page of color blocks and blips. But when you put your nose right up to it, and let your eyes refocus, BOOM! Dolphins leaping through the sea,…

I held on to my virginity so long I forgot what I was saving it for. It’s true.  I was a BIT of a late bloomer.  And while everyone should move at their own pace (and slower, if need be), especially when it comes to your body and whom you let close to it, it’s…

There’s something very elite and cool about specialists. Just requiring one almost makes you special. Like stylists who specialize in cutting curly hair. Or matchmakers who exclusively work with Virgos (if it’s not a thing, it should be). That’s cool. But. Does it mean YOU have to choose one thing to do and be forever…

They say if you’re going to believe your good reviews, you’re going to have to believe the bad ones, too. They also say there’s no such thing as bad press. They say a lot of things. I might be a lifelong writer, but I am a first-time author, in a competitive space (is there one…