Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

Greetings from a brick-lined apartment in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Portland, where I’m lying in bed with my leg elevated because A: it’s all the furniture I have and B: I did so much moving and walking and stair-climbing these last few days, my right...
The Difference a Year Can Make

The Difference a Year Can Make

Last November, I was drafting the first piece I published with Huffington Post — about how losing weight did not, as I had so long been taught it would, fix everything in my life (and had actually made a whole lot of things considerably worse). Although I was...
A Month in the Furthest Place From Home

A Month in the Furthest Place From Home

I catapulted myself across the country, aimlessly aimed at Seattle, hoping this crevice of Pacific coast would offer me a place to fold into. It did. I’ve been here for almost six weeks now, and I have to say, I’m pretty smitten. A lot of what I’ve...