Hi friend,

Here's a riddle for you.

Four hours ago, I boarded a plane to San Diego. Tucked myself in for the long haul. An hour and a half later, I'm back where I started.

...I'm stuck at Heathrow.

At least for the rest of the afternoon. I always feel sorry for people who get overly exasperated in these situations. It looks so exhausting to be that annoyed. Save your energy for the bigger battles, love.

Hi friend,

Yesterday, I told you I'd discovered a secret pattern in all my successful cold intro emails.

(By 'successful', I mean I got strangers to respond to me. Strangers who knew I wanted or needed something from them professionally, and stilldecided to email me back. That's huge.)

And the secret is hidden right in the very name of the very thing we're talking. Cold introduction.

Hi friend,

I am so glad it's autumn. I excel at layering, ask anybody.

I've recently decided that the biggest perk of being a grownup is realizing that summer is, in fact, not the best season of the year.

Anyway, all's humming along nicely over here. Headed to California at the beginning of November. Also, I keep threatening to make a trip somewhere new before the end of the year--on account of I do live in Europe after all.

Hey friend,

Did you know yesterday was World Mental Health Day?

It seemed like everyone in my network was super into it this year, which I think totally rocks. If there were ever a year when we need to know it's OK to talk about mental health stuff, it's probably this one.

Hey friend,

This pic keeps coming up on my Timehop this weekend and I just keep looking at it, and looking at it, and looking at it.

And I finally figured out: it's because it's my favorite picture of myself.