I’ve just flown in from Aspen (and boy are my arms tired! #throwbackjokes). This week has been a flurry of activity – from getting a piece published on Refinery29 to speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I and my words have taken me all over. So this week I’m giving you a recap so that […]
I’ll be taking off the next week or so due to midterm exams and papers rearing their ugly heads, but in the meantime you should check out some of my previous posts! Here are some of my favorite categories: Bangladesh Lessons (they’re good for your health!) Activism Women/Feminism
Hey there, Jordan – long time, no see! Or writing, rather. How appropriate that the last post in this blog, over a month ago, was entitled ‘On Writing Nothing at All.’ This past month, I’ve been running downhill. I’ve hosted workshops at conferences, tabled at zine fests, been elected to club president, written over 30 […]
Today, I have the great pleasure to be featured on ThinkSimpleNow, a website that I have repeatedly recommended during the course of writing this blog. Check out my post on The Power of Rituals over at their website and, if you’re interested in taking a few other leaves from my book, check out this collection […]
Yesterday, I wrote up my retrospective of 2011, so today I offer you some further great reading to reflect on for the year – pieces I’ve loved and wanted to follow up with. Here’s to a new year and new material to come! Guest postsI’ve been submitting several pieces into the larger internet world this […]
2011 has been a fast-paced emotional and creative rollercoaster for me: I moved from having my sophomore meltdown to being a fairly stable junior in college, I met my family for the first time, I made great strides in focusing on self-love and getting away from hurtful relationships; I cut off all my hair, created […]
This week, I looked back through the archives of life lessons that I’ve put up over the last few months and picked out some of my favorites. I’ve been learning so much from just thinking about how to teach others the methods that have worked well for me, that it’s nice to revisit some of […]