Posts About…
Authenticity
The Three Words That Changed Everything
Begin Again
You, Me, and Everyone Else
Farewell, Sally
Good Enough
Old Polaroids and Big Love
All There, All In
The Scary Post (where I talk about letting go of old dreams)
The Price of Happiness
A Little More Light Enters the Room
What American Idol Can Teach Us About Success
Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist
On String Lights and Gratitude
Good Mom, Bad Mom: Calling a Time Out on Mommy Wars
Now is Now
Elie Weisel: Think Higher, Feel Deeper
Let the Great World Spin: Sometimes No Challenge is the Best Challenge
The Marrying Kind
Crow, Baby, Crow
Are You a Pop Culture Snob?
Save Your Own Ass
And One Day, You Wake Up
Truth and Regret
No Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto: Fighting the Good Fight Against Information Overload
The Cost of Clutter
You’re Not Doing It Right
What Did You Give Up, To Get What You Got?
Risk Taking
Challenging Assumptions: A Girly Girl Tackles Tough Mudder
Forget the Blueprint, Ride the Mechanical Bull
Embracing Uncertainty
Going Out on a Limb
Risk Guns Blazing, Or Why I Moved to Canada for Love
Fail Harder
Creativity
A Space to Create
An Ode to Tangible Media
Creative Focal Length: What’s Yours?
Color Me Rad
The Art We Leave Behind
Steal Like an Artist
Think Small
Productivity
The Path of Most Resistance
Rethinking the To-Do List
Less Should, More Champagne
Just Do It
A Lot Like Yesterday, A Lot Like Never
Blogging
So, You Want to Start a Blog…
So, You Want to Start a Blog, Part II
Bloggers are People Too
To Micronesia, With Love
Photography
Every Picture Tells a Story
Pictures or it Didn’t Happen: Thoughts From a Compulsive Photographer
Oh, Happy Wedding Day
Travel
Lisbon, Beautiful Lisbon
La Dolce Vita
Starfish and Steep Hills on Salt Spring Island
Sedona on My Mind
California Dreaming
Canadian Wine Tripping
The Cows are Calling…
New York Food Love
You and Me and the Sea
Living Abroad
What About Your Friends?
Who’s Your City?
Voting From Afar: Thoughts on Election Day and Living Abroad
Sweet (Once Upon a Time) Home Chicago
The Cake List
Beating the Rainy Day Blues
Life is Fun
What I’m Reading This Fall
Kickstarting Change
The (First) Cake List
Words to Live By
Oscar Wilde
Roger Ebert
Ernest Hemingway
Freshly Press Yourself
The Pressables: Bravery Edition
Freshly Press Yourself, Starchier Than Ever
The Pressables
Freshly Press Yourself, Now With Extra Wrinkle Release
So Fresh and So Clean
(The First) Freshly Press Yourself
These Posts Were Freshly Pressed
A Space to Create
Creative Focal length: What’s Yours?
Selective Truth and Social Media: TMI or Not Enough?
What Did You Give Up, To Get What You Got?
Truth and Cake 
7 Comments
Post a commentWhere have you disappeared?!
I miss your posts!
Rian, hope you are ok and hope you’ll be back, i miss your posts.
Just found your blog. You seem authentically wonderful and so far ahve loved reading just some of your posts. :)
I couldn’t have come across “So, you want to start a blog..” at a more perfect time. I have really enjoyed a few of your posts, thank you!
I am all about ‘truths’. There is so much here and the titles themselves are enough to pull me in. I look forward to diving in and reading more.
Rian I just read your blog on How to rebuild your life and it struck me deeply. So much of what you wrote are the words I have been struggling to find for the past 13 years. In 2002, after an accident that left my husband handicapped, my loving husband of 22 yrs unexpectedly committed suicide, leaving me and our 2 teenage children. There is nothing in life that can prepare you for the astigmatism and post traumatic stress of losses like this. Your story has finally helped me to begin finding the words I’ve searched to find for so many years… perhaps I may write that book someday after all :) I too have been very blessed to have found love again (with my 1st husband’s close friend since they were kids) and I know from experience that what sometimes seems like the end, it actually a new beginning. <3