The Scientific Recipe for an Authentic (and Happy!) Life

In 2020, I joined a writing group that still meets today. If you had asked a former draft-version of me whether I’d ever be part of something like that, I would’ve laughed. No way. Too introverted. Too skeptical. But it ended up being life-changing. They encouraged me to join Instagram. Cue the ughhh. I hated social media. I’d been off the grid since I quit MySpace (and if you know MySpace, we’re automatically friends). There had been successful at FictionPress and a few atte

I’m a longtime fan of journalist Danielle Robay’s Question Everything podcast. It used to be called Pretty Smart, a title I loved, but the evolution fits her perfectly. The show now centers on conversations that gently (and sometimes not so gently) challenge the status quo. At the end of every episode, Danielle asks her female guests a rapid-fire question. If you’ve listened long enough, you can feel it coming: “What is something every woman should try once?”