Open Your Heart

Open Your Heart

This is not a post on romantic love or even self-love – at least not directly. Today, I’m going to talk about opening your heart – to experiences, to people, to ideas, and even to hurt. It’s easy to open your heart with those you trust, but what about...
Authenticity is not Dead

Authenticity is not Dead

I dated someone once who argued that authenticity is dead.  He argued that ideas, concepts, and recipes have been diluted over the years, and thus authenticity is just this thing we say to give something more value – like authentic Mexican cuisine, even though the...
The Calculus of Happiness

The Calculus of Happiness

Happiness – for years, it was my white whale – I chased it, hunted it, but never quite captured it.  It wasn’t for my lack of trying, but the mere way in which I thought about happiness, the way in which I defined it, made it impossible to obtain. I...