Today I am honored to share an interview with blogging superstar Jon Morrow! If you don’t do anything else today but read this interview, you’ll have learned and grown as a person as much as others do in a lifetime. Jon is the associate editor of...
Two years ago today, I woke up in one of the nicest hotels I’d ever seen—white sheets, sun pouring through sheer curtains, the skyline of Los Angeles humming outside the window. The kind of morning that should have felt ordinary, but wasn’t. My chest was electric with...
A few weeks ago, I had the honor of interviewing Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Non-Conformity. Chris has made it his mission to travel every country of the world before he turns 35 and he is well on his way of achieving this incredible goal. But not only that, he is...
I have a confession to make: I am terrified of calling people. I don’t why, but something about not seeing people’s faces and expressions when talking to them makes me feel extremely awkward. At the same time, I am actually quite shy and often at a loss for words and...
My eyes open reluctantly. My head feels heavy and my mind is numb. I see my mom sobbing, feel my dad checking my pulse. It’s February 28th, 2006 and I had just tried to commit suicide. This day had been coming for a number of years. All the pressure that I had been...
“Looking at you, I am shocked.” The doctor looked me in the eyes in order to stress her point. My recovery from anorexia was not going to be easy. This was the moment I had been dreading for months. This was the moment when I needed to face reality and...
As I have shared in a recent post, I had to wait 10 long months to travel to a different continent again and an even more agonizing 18 months to set foot on US soil again. I realize that for many of you, this statement sounds ridiculous. Complaining about only having...
While you are waiting for my full recap of my trip to the West Coast of the US, I have a very entertaining podcast episode for you. I recorded this episode of The Podcast Answer Man with Cliff Ravenscraft, or rather, he recorded it with me. It had been a dream of mine...
