I often find, I do my best writing while listening to music [in case you’re curious, the soundtrack to this article is the album, Fine...

We might be drifting away from all our friends, but as Emily Dickinson said, "Forever is composed of Nows."

On my 18th birthday (well, kind of), I baked my own birthday cake. Cost-effective? Nope. Delicious? Not really. Empowering? Definitely.