Stay classy, person who has my mail.

Right. So there were a number of things I could have conceivably been doing the afternoon before flying to Germany for two months. Like, packing maybe. Or leaving my brother instructions about weird Hoppy House-related things. Or freaking out and falling apart, as per...

Ask Havi #1: The “How come?” edition

Because I said so Actually, the credit for the brand new Ask Havi category all goes to Kelly Parkinson (aka Copylicious). Kelly, who is also my amazing writer-friend slash colleague slash cheerleader, likes to regularly point out how unfair it is that I don’t...

Hold the schnick schnack!

Did you know? I’m sitting right now in my favorite cafe in Berlin. Which also happens to be my favorite cafe in the world. Favorite! To the point that were there to suddenly be some completely ridiculous law that from now on cafe-sitting is like marriage, and...

Book Review: The Design of Everyday Things

So I read about three nonfiction books a week, mostly biggification and self-work (what regular people call business and self-help). Rated on a scale of ducks: 1 duck = Stephen Covey (yawn) and 5 ducks = Malcolm Gladwell (do a little dance). Books worth reading are...
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