self-help

It might have been because it was my first ever solo trip: first time flying alone, first time working in a hostel, first time going...

It’s 2017. Trump has just been inaugurated 10 days ago. My Hijabi self is in a car on the way to the airport. Only 24...

If you’re anything like me, you’re just about as likely to be able to fall asleep on a plane as you are to win the...

Like all of you here, I love to experience the intoxicating sights, smells, and sounds of a new city. I also appreciate the comforting familiarity...

The public face of most travelers is usually that of the adventurer: energetic, free, open to anyone and anything. It could be that guy at...

So much of life is a game of puffing feathers, tickling egos, and trying to look like more than we all are. But you don’t...

Two weeks ago, I was in Café Folks and Sparrows in Paris and I overheard a woman in her late 20s (and her dog) as she...

What does it mean when the first thing we all do every morning is grab for our phone? Ironically enough, the first article I read...

After hours of zombie-ing your way through StumbleUpon, getting caught up in other people’s lives on social media, and working your way through endless grumpy...

I hesitated between naming this blog Self-Help Books That’ll Actually Change Your Life and Self-Help Books That Aren’t Cheesy, because more often than not we...

I recently received a message on Facebook from a woman who had watched me speak publicly about how to start your own digital company as...

Most people write letters to their future selves to keep track of goals they want to accomplish, or to laugh about how pathetic their tiny...