Starting the Search: My Advice to Salvadoran Adoptees
I often get asked for advice on searching for your birth family, so I created this page to share all of the information I have on the subject.
Essay
So you've set a New Years' resolution, great, but what is your system?
It’s that time of the year again when we all set New Years Resolutions. I wanted to share a different approach to resolutions that works with your brain and doesn’t make you feel like a failure. I discovered this approach a few months ago and have a lot of success using it in my own life.
You are not a failure
Throughout my life I have failed. I have failed so many times, in so many different ways. Often, it seemed like the things that I struggled with came so easily to others. There can be immense pressure to succeed. To live up to the expectations of others and ourselves. Whenever
Taste, execution, and resilience. The three parts, to making your art.
Studying a wide range of artists and entrepreneurs led me to identify three themes that are essential to making “art.” They are taste, execution, and resilience.
Misfit Con: A Home for Dreams, Doers, and Makers
(This essay first appeared as a medium.com post) Memories of summer campI grew up going to summer camp. I went to Camp Frank A. Day as a camper and staff member for 14 years. The summers spent on the shores of Quacumquasitt were some of the best days of