Maybe this year I will take a holiday from Christmas.

The key to learning how to watercolor is to keep watercoloring. But when that fails, here are a few fool-proof tips.

I am in love with a person named Luke and this is a blog entry that is just only about that.

As you start the academic year, vow to always have your backpack exactly the way you want to have it.

What would happen if you released the story that you are not good enough just as you are? And why is it so difficult to do?

I know that the praying thing makes a lot of you a little queasy. And this makes sense, because religion has historically been oppressive, exclusionary, or, at best, something to appropriate. But, dangerous as it may be, I’m coming out as someone who prays.

Hey, internet! Here are some of my most recent failures!

Today is a big day.

A primer for people not actually looking to tune pianos, but who are looking for the deeper lessons that piano tuning might bring a person. Also, I mean, there is SOME information in here on tuning pianos. I wouldn’t call this the end-all-be-all guide, but it’s not NOT useful.

From the mind of a person who gives way too many.

Specifically, how to buy a house that is falling apart, in the middle of winter, in Chicago — when you can’t afford it and your lease isn’t up until July.

There are four monsters who are keeping you from writing, and I know how you can battle them. 

So you ate your feelings for the entire month of December, and now with the dawning of the new year, you're trying to move on. 

For many of us, writing is easy; talking is harder; and listening is the hardest of all. But listening, I’m afraid, is at the beginning of how anything ever gets done.

It is sometimes necessary to write an email. Here are a few Very Good pointers for any occasion.

To love pasta is to love a cheap, readily available, saucy food that every person on earth who is romantically pursuing you will someday try to make for you. And you can show them how much better you are when you demonstrate that boxed noodles are for suckers.

Having feelings is one thing; talking about them is quite another. 

I hate math but I love crosswords, so this is a good little trick to keep handy.