Ditch the Poopy Polar Express: How Watching Your Thoughts can Help the Post-Holiday Blues

Here we are the day after Christmas (still smack dab in the middle of Hanukkah) and I don’t think I’m alone in having an “ugh” feeling.

Stop Waiting for an Epiphany: How To Make the Right Decisions in Life

I spent a lot of my life waiting to be certain.

I waited for the “burning bush” moment in so many areas: career, relationships, and big decisions in general.

Take for example, the decision to have a child.

This is arguably the BIGGEST decision that a person can make in life – definitely not one to take lightly, right?

Hot Garbage Roller Coaster: How Your Thoughts Create Reality

Sometimes your vulnerability isn’t met with approval, or “likes” or outer reward. Sometimes nothing changes on the outside but the inside of your head starts screaming at you. Sometimes you suddenly feel like you’re standing in the middle of the gymnasium naked and wish in an instant you could take it all back.

Grief, Dogs, and Babies: What a Farting Dog Taught Me About Missing My Mom

My mom called me the night that she died.

She left me a voicemail and said she was looking forward to seeing me, and asked what time would I be over?

When I checked it from a coffee shop that night, I rolled my eyes: why did she think I was coming over?

Live the Life You Should Live: AKA Ditch the Crapball

I spent a lot of time trying to negotiate with my past.

“Maybe if I’d gone to college when everyone else did…”

“Maybe if I’d gone on more auditions in LA…”

“Maybe if I’d turned down the Vicodin Rx that kickstarted my addiction…”

Let's Talk About Death, Baby

We are ALL going to die.

You, me, Donald Trump, Beyonce, beloved Fluffy, that insta-influencer you follow, your neighbor who’s always jogging the neighborhood with her baby…even Justin Bieber. I KNOW. So what does that mean to you? Read on.

These are NOT the Best Years of Your Life

People looooove to tell you that “these are the best years of your life” when you’ve just had a baby.

They also tell you that it “goes by so fast, cherish every moment,” and yada yada insert well-meaning advice and nostalgia that basically makes me start to panic here.

What Being a Bad Comedian Taught Me About Confidence

Improvising for laughs came pretty naturally to me. I’d been shoving cupcakes in my face for the amusement of others since grade school.

I liked the spontaneity, the brashness, and the permission to be as weird as I wanted with a bunch of other weirdos.

But my improv career was over almost as soon as it began, because something killed it.

What an Old Yearbook Can Teach Us About Making the Most of Our Time and Life

As I turned the pages and read the stories, I felt like I retrospectively got to know people at a budding time in their lives. The jokesters, the artists, the poets, the jocks.

Lives that have long since played out: people whose fate is now sealed in time.