For most of my life, I’ve been chasing home and never really finding it.
I’d look for it in my mom’s childhood bedroom, her blue carpet holding my big dreams...
“I just can’t believe it!” my grandma said, shaking her head. “I can’t believe you’re here!”
“I am,” I replied, swiveling to face her in one of the three overstuffed...
Over the past year or so, I’ve become more into listening to audiobooks, especially when the author narrates them. I’ve always been an analog book person, preferring the feel...
“So, Raz, how’s Jeff?” my uncle asks as he forks a piece of turkey and pushes it through a puddle of gravy. He smirks, waits, pleased with his opening...
There are certain fixations we all have, specific ideas about our lives we decide when we’re young and make sure come true.
For me, I knew, even as a little...
I didn’t participate in Girl Scouts growing up, but I did sign up for Campfire Girls, which is very similar. Instead of selling cookies, we sold chocolates (which were...
I just finished reading my 50th book of the year, Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True by Elizabeth Berg, the only book I’ve read on writing...
Whether corporate coffee has you rushing into fall (have you had a PSL yet? Be honest) or you’re clinging to those last rays of summer, the reality is that...
When I was a starry-eyed young employee, I begged, cajoled, pestered, and campaigned to go to conferences. My parents both worked for the government when I was young and...
I spent most of my formative summers bouncing between the wheat horizon of my mom’s hometown (Waterville, Washington), the forested hills of my dad’s hometown (Moscow, Idaho), the shores...
In mid-April, the day after Whitney and I did a photo shoot together in Seattle, my husband woke up in a hotel room in Wenatchee experiencing numbness and tingling...
We are both in client services, Emilie with virtual executive support and me (Whitney) with copywriting services. We’ve taken courses, sent thousands of proposals, learned from the latest marketing...
One day, at my first big PR job, a director came sniffing around the junior staff cube farm.
“Who’d like to volunteer for an extra project?” she asked, scanning the...
In our world (local female small business owners), there is a strong emphasis on healing journeys and intentionality. We run our businesses through that lens, believing that the better and...
