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A Guide to Graceful Dating & Love
I took this picture when I was in full Mermaid regalia on Mardi Gras day, which is why it’s one of my favorite pictures. But I also like it because it reminds me of what we all go through. Sometimes...
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Cutting Out The Noise Of Other People’s Accomplishments
This is the surfing picture you don’t often see—a small wave, a long board, and a surfer that is looking to the open ocean, on his path, riding his wave, in bliss. Does this ever happen to you? You’re...
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When To Stop Giving
Do you see this crookedness, this life lived askew? This is what it is like to to give give give give and not receive. When my company closed down in a quiet but public way, I experienced for the first...
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When Things Move Fast
This is a picture of me doing yoga. Not at a fancy studio, not on a cushiony mat, but on the bare 100 year old cypress floor of my house during a listless Sunday afternoon in the middle of summer in...
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Why Don’t Twenty-Somethings Dream Anymore?
This is my VW bus parked on a moonscape like beach on the gulf coast. Something about the sparseness of this picture reminds me that when we strip our lives of all the junk we don't need, we're only...
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Lessons Learned From Being Sick & A Nefarious Blue Tooth
It started during the raffle. I was leaning against a big column and sipping my glass of water (I already knew that this was NOT going to be a wine kind of night), when my body broke out in...
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You’re Not Too Old to Switch Careers. Or Play The Harp.
I took this self portrait with a film camera, a tri-pod, and a self timer when I was 16. Something about the soft light, the blur of my hands, the look of utter concentration on my 16 year old face,...
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The Most Important Thing You Will Learn in New Orleans
One of the biggest things I love about New Orleans is that it’s driven by relationships. One of the biggest things I hate about New York City is tat it’s driven by money. When I lived in NYC, everyone...
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Advice I Shouldn’t Give: Unplug. Right Now.
Do you see this plant? How neon-green it's leaves are, how red it's trunk shines? It only grows in swamps, but during Katrina it drifted in the flood waters and rooted randomly in my front yard. We...
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The Toughest Part of Growing Up
Have you ever been in the mountains, tens of thousands of feet away from the solid, sea-level earth? You feel like you are hovering not here, nor there, but somewhere else. This is what 2011 felt like...
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