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Last year, I put together a List of Things for 2012. It wasn’t a bucket list — just a list of things I wanted to make more time for in my day-to-day life. I had three big things in mind for 2012: -Travel more — I got out to Austin, New York, New Orleans, Denver (…)

So I’ll keep this semi-brief: In two weeks, I’m going to start a new job. At BuzzFeed. Yes, the same BuzzFeed that regularly produces stories like this. I’m going to join them as their first-ever Newsletter Editor. I’ll be working out of their New York office. I am pretty freaking excited about this. If you’re (…)

“Staying comfortable is the number one way to stay exactly where you are.” — Kate Matsudaira   In 2008, when I got my new driver’s license, I weighed in at 175 pounds. By the end of senior year, as I started to grow into myself, I hit 190. But I was still pretty darn skinny. (…)

“Of all the things to be picky about, people is the most important.” — Nick Seguin   Two years ago, I wrote a happy birthday message to my mother on this blog. It read: “A very happy birthday to you, mom, without whom this blog would not be possible, and without whom I would be (…)

Something changed in me this year. I know, because I was on the phone with a friend a few weeks ago. I was telling her about all the work I’m putting in with Stry and Very Quotatious and the fellowship, and she didn’t say anything. And then I saw her a few days later, and (…)

So this is the story about how back in 2004, something happened on Martin Luther King Day that changed my life. Actually, it wasn’t exactly MLK Day. It was the Friday before. Every year, my synagogue in D.C. holds a big interfaith service. Religious leaders from across the city come, and choirs sing, and there’s (…)

This is the time of the year when people start making bucket lists. You know what they are; I won’t ramble on here about mine. But what I would like to discuss is a sort of corollary to the bucket list. See: We have the bucket list, which looks long term. We have the to-do (…)

I am 24 years old, and I’m going through a period of transition in my life. It’s that time of the year when I start getting all thoughtful about where I am and where I’m going, and at this very moment, I’m stuck in Kansas City Int’l, waiting for a flight home. So I wanted (…)

This was originally published over at the RJI blog. But I really liked what I’d written. So I’m republishing it here: ❡❡❡ This is not a motivational blog post. I am not writing this to inspire you. I do not want you to read this and quit your job. Is that clear? Are you sure? (…)

I went to see NBC News’ David Gregory speak tonight in a little auditorium on Nantucket Island. He spoke for an hour, mostly about the failures of our political system and our economy and our media, and then he closed by reminding everyone that we were on a little island 30 miles off the coast (…)