The LITMO Life

A (True) Story About A Traveler Who Hates Commitment

A (True) Story About A Traveler Who Hates Commitment Once upon a time, there was a girl. We’ll call her Schmanjali. (*Editor’s note: this name and story are completely fictionalized so any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.) (*Editor’s second note: I’m lying.) Schmanjali was a really fun chick, sometimes. She was […]

Here’s The Thing About Boundaries…

Here’s The Thing About Boundaries… Very rarely is it acceptable to be an outright asshole. Most people don’t take super kindly to other people being rude or obnoxious or straight-up mean, with poor intentions. It’s normally clear how to react in those situations: shut it down That said, most people – myself included – aren’t […]

The Key To My Marriage Is Being Married To A Stranger

The below is a piece that I submitted to a publication, really hoping they would accept it. They did not, and instead of holding on to it and pitching it around, I realized it was important to me, and it was a piece I really enjoyed writing.

The End Of Justification

The End Of Justification Justification, to self or to others, is bullshit. Let me start over. Lately, inconsistency and I have been pretty good friends. Well, Internet inconsistency anyway. The act of blogging, or Youtubing, or social media-ing….these things haven’t come consistently or easily to me lately. And that’s not exactly new for me. You see […]

Camping As A Couple: A Guide To Making It The Best

Camping As A Couple: A Guide To Making It The Best Let me tell you a story a true story about me and camping at festivals. I hate it. I want to love it so much. But currently, I don’t. However, the upside is that I think I am slowly starting to! But essentially, right […]

Are Great Minds Born Out Of Just Being Sick Of All The Bullshit?

Are Great Minds Born Out Of Just Being Sick Of All The Bullshit? Are great meditative minds born out of just being sick of all the bullshit? I don’t consider myself a great mind by any stretch – but I do think I have a tendency to question what I’ve been told or see around […]

The Internet Is A Bullshit Cesspool Of Competitive Mediocrity

The Internet Is A Bullshit Cesspool Of Competitive Mediocrity I haven’t written in a long, long time. And I suppose, that got to me a bit (well, not NOT writing, just the idea of having a weirdly unfinished blog on the internets). So I wanted to take some time to gather my thoughts and talk […]

Happiness Isn’t A Static Concept (So How Could Anything Else Be?)

Happiness Isn’t A Static Concept (So How Could Anything Else Be?) I’m not very consistent. Readers of The LITMO Life will know that this is true of me and everything. I’m not consistent about blogging, I’m not consistent about YouTubing, I’m not consistent about what I want to do for more than one moment in […]

Here’s Why I Think We Sometimes Lose Friends When We’re Happy

Here’s Why I Think We Sometimes Lose Friends When We’re Happy Since we’ve been married (just about four months now!), both Jonathon and I have watched in surprise as certain friendships have fallen from our lives. I’m a bit more of an all-over-the-place-social-butterfly than he is, so I had a big circle of close friends, […]