by Uncustomary | Jun 6, 2014 | Celebration
My friend, April, posted this picture online the other day that she took in Nepal, and I fell in love with it immediately. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes of all time, which comes from Story Of The Day: She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to...
by Uncustomary | May 30, 2014 | Creativity
I consider myself lucky to have been born when I was. I got to experience what it was like to live before everything was digitized. We had sleepovers without YouTube, memorized our friends’ phone numbers, and the closest thing we had to smart phones were the...
by Uncustomary | May 24, 2014 | Travel
Recently, Stephen Colbert made a joke about Baltimore being a “wasteland”. It was hilarious, but at the root of most hilarity is truth. Obviously I love my city. I talk about it all the time. But the truth is that there’s tons to be done to make it a...
by Uncustomary | May 20, 2014 | Happiness
Every month, I host an event in Baltimore. So when Beth contacted me with the idea of a Happiness Experience field day kind of adventure, I was on board without a second thought! Over the past several weeks, we came up with ideas for different stations and called upon...
by Uncustomary | May 11, 2014 | Celebration
After posting my funeral plans last week, I started thinking about eulogies. Generally, eulogies are celebratory speeches about a person who has recently died. Wouldn’t you much rather be able to hear what your friends have to say about you, though? There is no...
