Today marks something tender and remarkable: the second edition of Wear Your Life Well is officially out in the world. Nine years to the day since the first edition arrived. Nine years of growth, grit...

For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.

~T.S. Eliot

Each December, I choose a word to guide the year ahead. Not a resolution, not a task l...

Tonight, I cleaned my silverware.

It has been sitting quietly in a drawer for years—not because it didn’t matter, but perhaps because it mattered too much. As I polished each piece, I realized I w...

The holidays ask a lot of us.
Not just our time or our energy, but our hearts.
We give and give and give — our attention, our kindness, our thoughtfulness, our effort — often without stopping to ask wha...

A new year doesn't need resolutions - just rituals that remind you hope is always on the table.

-Helene Oseen

 As we turn the corner from one year to the next, many of us feel that quiet mixture of ...

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves,

and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys,

they’d just always walk around naked.

—Betsy Johnson

My granddaughter Zoë, just ...

Sorrow may shape you, but it doesn’t define you. 

There are moments in life that change everything. Moments we never see coming, moments we’re not ready for. Some of them leave us breathless with ...

Everywhere you turn these days, there’s a cause asking for help.
And truthfully, most of them are worthy.

It’s easy to feel torn—pulled between compassion and fatigue. The need is endless, the world f...

I opened Michelle Obama's latest book The Look  late one night, thinking I’d read a few pages before bed. By the time I reached the dedication, I was in tears.

She wrote:

“To all of the people behin...

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. 

—Oscar Wilde 

Have you ever wondered what’s next? 

I’ve learned that just when I think everythin...

Have you ever noticed that some people older than you energize you - and some much younger drain you?

It's something I've bee thinking about lately. I've had conversations with "elderly" women that l...