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A friend of mine sat at a distance on my porch last weekend and told me she made a list recently of what "success" means to her: love of...

As cities around the country grapple with how public safety can be protected and sustained through social services rather than guns and...

If you're reading this note, you probably have some interest in making peace with your body—healing or strengthening it so you can show...

Last Tuesday, I got a phone call from a college friend I hadn't spoken with in many years. She is a Black woman living in New Jersey, and...

In Nashville, we have a nightly quarantine ritual called the 8 O'Clock Howl. As the sun goes down each night, people go out on their...

I was listening to an interview this week with the founders of Sweetgreen, the salad restaurant chain, on an NPR podcast called How I...

There is one thing I can count on when I get on a call with my clients: They underestimate what they have accomplished since we last...

Well... it seems that over the course of the last week, everything we took for granted is suddenly no more: work, school, spring break,...

Dear friends, I want to thank so many of you who have reached out in recent days to check on my family and our community in Nashville....

As I wrapped up my manuscript in recent weeks and looked up from my computer, I found myself sitting in a weird stew of outrage and...

THE HABIT TRIP will be out on Running Press December 1, 2020! When something feels wrong, your routines are a mess, and nothing is...

I've had this image sitting in a corner of my desktop for the last year or so. The statue is called Melancholie by Albert Gyorgy, and it...

Whoa! Thank you, WOW WOMAN: EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN AND THEIR STORIES for the beautiful feature this week! I'm pasting bits of the interview...

Well, believers in justice and civility got sucker punched again this weekend. So I'm writing to offer evidence of the "Mueller report...

Bianca invited me into her inner circle of inspired, professional women last week for a Physical Disobedience Book Party in Atlanta. She...

At the first Women's March in 2017, I made my way to Washington D.C. in the car with a friend of mine, driving 12 hours into the night...

Join me on leg two of my book tour! See info below for cities, locations, and times. Or reach out if you would like to host an event in...

I will be having a conversation at Vanderbilt University's Wond'ry Innovation Lab with Shan Foster, Vice President of External Affairs &...

February 12, 2019, 12-1 p.m. Sewanee: The University of the South 735 University Ave, Sewanee, TN 37383 A conversation moderated by...

Jennifer is the blogger and creator behind Bacon on the Bookshelf, an online portal for current book reviews and poetry. Her reviews can...