This summer’s travels are my little happiness project. As I’ve gotten older I’ve given up the idea that happiness is found because we made the perfect life decisions or did creative work or have a great relationship with our spouse. I know for me, I am much more simple than that. So biking my way

Okay let’s just say it: I’m a little depressed. I realized it this week because I had a call with my editor and agent and thought, “oh god, I suck”. That’s called negative self-talk and it’s insane. Here are two people who are heavily invested in me, and yet I’m self-shaming and worrying about everything

It’s how our brains work. The thing is, even though we might come to understand this, it still works. Paying a lot for a glass of wine, makes it taste better… studies have shown this. Going through the effort and hassle of travel makes everything seem more valuable. But what if you just want an

From Elizabeth I’s binding Victorian corsets, to suffragette Emily Pankhurst’s ‘shocking’ shorts and Coco Chanel’s wardrobe full of those famous suits, the clothes women choose to wear have always been powerful reflections of self-expression. But over the past 150 years, ‘power dressing’ has evolved as attitudes to fashion change. So it’s fitting that a new