Carrie Saum

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I can’t promise this will cure everything that ails you, but it’s a good start to a new year if nothing else.

SLEEP IS REALLY IMPORTANT. Here ar six ways to help make your sleep sacred.

Gather anything orange, brown, olive green, harvest yellow, and dead. Dead leaves, dead flowers, dead hopes and dreams, and arrange them artistically on your front doorstep.

We are in the midst of buying a house.

I understood in no uncertain terms because of purity culture that having sex outside of marriage was the worst thing I could do as a young woman.

Because here's the thing. Kindness is the antidote to the poison being pedaled by the Trumps of the world. Your anger is valid and important, and your despair should never be overlooked. And you can be all of the things, feel all of the feelings, ardently and vigorously defend the most vulnerable among us, say all of the words you need to say, and act with an undercurrent of kindness.

I didn’t realize I was a polarizing person until my late 20s. I was raised in a tradition where being liked was extremely important — pivotal, even.

I now interrupt your frantic turkey preparations for the following announcement: 

EAT PIZZA, INSTEAD.

The country is kind of obsessed with KonMari. I get it. Truly, I do.