Haters are going to hate

I was 26 the first time I realized that what people thought about me had more to do with them than with who I was/am as a person. Such an epiphany should have freed me; unfortunately, it didn’t. When I’d first moved to Iran, I wanted two things more than...

Or you could just write an essay

When I was in grad school, I took an essay writing course. We were assigned an anthology called The Best American Essays, which still sits, all marked up with black ink, on my bookshelf. (If I could find a link, I’d put it here, but I can’t.)  In it, I...

What to read on vacation

It’s the holiday week. Business has all but shut down. And I know precisely how I’m going to spend much of my time. I have a stack of books I’ve been dying to read, so, baby, here I come. Which got me thinking…which books might I recommend for...

The Sane Food Solution

Tuesday, December 10, 2024; that’s the day The Sane Food Solution:Transform Your Relationship with Food and Change Your Life hits the market. This book, Summit Press Publishers’ latest release, captures Theresa Wright’s nearly 40 years of experience...

Momento Mori

I was doom scrolling on Instagram when I came across a Ryan Holiday post about his 2022 book, Discipline Is Destiny. In it he writes, “To procrastinate is to be entitled. It is arrogant. It assumes there will be a later. It assumes you’ll have the discipline to get to...