Dear 12-year-old looking in the mirror wondering how you went from being fairly decent looking to ugly overnight, you didn’t. You were just abused by someone you trusted, even though you haven’t quite grasped this yet. It’s not the reflection in the mirror that changed, it’s the eyes you see it with. This moment, this […]

Hey everyone, I feel like sometimes people think my days of failure are behind me and that of course I can sit on my high horse and talk about how all of you should negotiate and ask for more and step up and do the work because I don’t have to worry about any of […]

How many hours do you work per week? Do you know? I realized this week that I didn’t. I know how much time I spend per assignment for my clients because I track that. I do track how much time I work on freelancing and content marketing, too, because I want to track my hourly […]

It was ten years ago today, on my 24th birthday, that I decided to change my life. I was in India and already making a living with my writing by then, but I was beginning to get dissatisfied with the work I was doing. While I had fun assignments from technology magazines about how cellphones […]