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Dear blogosphere, Adventure has taken me to focus my blog-writing skills on a new and exciting project. Come see what I'm up to, and...

Despite being kind of fabulous in plenty of ways, my life has looked kind of like this for too long.  In some ways I've just bee...

Washington is well known as a crossroads of global influence with a constant incoming stream of some of the brightest people in the world...

What if you could look on one screen at all of the public transportation options in DC at the same time and choose the be...

This is the third in a series of posts about love. Read the others in this series, Poison Love and Medicinal Love . Love is, perhaps,...

This is the second in a series of posts about love. Read the first post, "Poison Love" here . Love is, perhaps, the most rem...

Love is, perhaps, the most dangerous thing in the world. It comes softly, easily - as though a complex chemical cocktail planted in your poc...

One moment finds me on the bridge. I've stepped into it like an enormous globe filled with wind, not snow, between the earth and the sk...

"Finally. There. Those people are leaving." My good friend Kelsey sped up and pulled in to park. "But I was just so frustrate...

She's coming up on three decades of life. You can look at her roots and see the grey bark cracking off what is actually a tree trunk now...

"You have to have a sense of humor about these things, missy." said Kenneth, directing a big smile down at me. My ears were hot, e...

Unsolicited, the thought came through my mind, "Lift up your heads, O you Gates!  And be lifted up, O you ancient doors." I wasn...

Some people really don't like halloween. It bothers them. A lot.  They want their kids to go to "Harvest Parties" --never anyt...

Usually it happens when you're walking down the sidewalk. It's the thing I love and hate about being out in public. People don't...

In retrospect, we fawn over the golden seasons of our lives. They are the stories we love to tell and reflect on. The places we want to ge...

Maybe it's this city. We value accomplishment. We praise proficient multi-taskers. We're high achievers. Friends my age are drafting...

The most valuable thing I can give is my attention. We listen. If not to things or people, then to ourselves. We draw on the world around us...

The declaration “I am an entrepreneur” is surely more satisfying in this social media age than wearing a name tag or passing out the “standa...

Two years ago today, my mom died of breast cancer after an eight year struggle. She was a beautiful lady, inside & out-- a giver, empowe...