How to Deal With Failure

I literally could not believe I failed yet again; I was in complete denial. People would ask me how the book was coming, and I’d tell them I was working on it…and I would actually believe it was true—when I hadn’t touched the manuscript in over […]

How Pessimism Can Help You Lose Weight

It happens to the best of us. You get an idea of what you want to accomplish: how you’re going to perfect your life…how you’ll tame your appetites…how you’re going to become rich…or how your home (or your body) is going to look like a […]

What I Learned From a Bag of Poop

Last weekend, on a beautiful, blue-sky day, I stepped outside my front door and was greeted by a plastic bag of dog poop sitting on the sidewalk in front of my house. (I don’t have a dog, so it definitely wasn’t mine.) Sigh. I was […]