My Best Self Spends More Money on Books

These Best Self goals are shaping my life in interesting—and…

Present Imperfect: Giving Up On My Best Self

Learning to forgive myself for falling short

Wondering If I’ll Ever Be Able To Afford To Be My Best Self

When accomplishing one thing means…

What Other People Want Me to Be in 2016

I want to be free of the voices in my head.

Being Fine With Doing Nothing

When I’m not hard at work, I’m not really sure what else I’m suppose to…

Embracing My Flaws in 2016

I’m the kind of person who doesn’t learn without making mistakes and making those same mistakes repeatedly. In…

Happy, Healthy, and Killing It at Work

The day my first Billfold article was published, I got a job offer from a company I’ll call…

My Best Self Writes and Writes and Writes

I spent last New Year’s Eve at the budget hotel where my boyfriend worked. His coworker…

Our Woman in 2016

The best version of myself has a leather jacket and expensive jeans and lots of lean muscle and no debt and her own apartment and is either a spy or the writer of a TV show about a spy.

She is a stranger with my face, and I know myself, the one here and now, enough to…

On Sharing, Co-habiting, and Adulting

As I’ve come to find out, really loving someone means sharing.