• The Workout That Finally Worked At 45

    The Workout That Finally Worked At 45

    I picked up a five-pound dumbbell one morning almost as an afterthought, mostly because it was sitting on my dresser and I felt guilty walking past it again. I didn’t expect much. I’d expected a lot of things from a lot of routines by that point, and none of them had stuck. When My Body…

  • Things I Wish I Knew At 30

    Things I Wish I Knew At 30

    My niece called me last week, stressed about a promotion she didn’t get, and I found myself giving her advice I never once followed at her age. I said “your job isn’t your identity” like it was obvious. Like I hadn’t spent an entire decade proving otherwise. The Life I Was Supposed To Build Growing…

  • My Kitchen Remedy For Melasma

    My Kitchen Remedy For Melasma

    I was wiping off my makeup one night when I caught my reflection under the bathroom light and just stopped. The brown patches on my cheeks looked darker than I remembered, and no amount of concealer had been hiding them for weeks. I’d been telling myself it was just uneven tanning. It wasn’t. When Melasma…