Hump Day Help: Pumpkin Bites, Fake Showers, Biz Cards & Planned Parenthood

Jessie Rosen - September 30, 2015

Wednesday means four ways to waste at least an hour! Here are my favorite options for this week. Healthy Pumpkin Spiced Latte Bites via The Big Man’s World Because enough with the 5,000 calorie, $5-a-pop Starbucks invention. Time to take back the flavor pumpkin! Moo Business Cards Because I just ordered a brand new set and was reminded for the fifth time how incredible this company …

5 Ways the World Could Make It Easier To Become a Writer

Jessie Rosen - September 29, 2015

Image via: http://bit.ly/1h4S5h0 My friend Liz recently sent me an article written by the phenomenal essayist and author Meghan Daum. It’s called My Misspent Youth (Daum has a book by the same name), and it’s written just before she leaves New York for Lincoln, Nebraska – 70,000+ in debt despite successes most writers spend their lives envying. It’s about the fact that life as a writer is …

Latest for Bustle.com: 12 Unexpected Red Flags

Jessie Rosen - September 28, 2015

Here’s a little #mondaymotivation in the form of some tough relationship love. My latest piece for the fab Bustle.com is about pink flags that should be BRIGHT RED. Read ’em and dump, ladies and gents. #sorrynotsorry

My Personal Fall TV Shows Schedule

Jessie Rosen - September 24, 2015

This morning I finally went through the full Fall TV shows schedule so that I could properly DVR all my programming, so that I could work my Class Pass schedule around my TV viewing schedule, so that I know exactly which nights I can walk to Mainland Poke on 3rd Street for dinner. I thought you might be interested to know so that we can blog/tweet/’gram/complain about it …

Hump Day Help: Health App, DIY Coasters, Poke Craze, Puppy Train

Jessie Rosen - September 23, 2015

Four links to get you through the fast – or just another annoying Wednesday. Enjoy! Lark – fitness, food + sleep tracker My friend Ally turned me on to Lark which tracks your sleep, activity and meals in this crazy impressive texting system. It asks you what you ate – via a text inside the app. You tell it what you ate – …

How To Be Independent: According To My Puppy

Jessie Rosen - September 22, 2015

Sunday was Louie’s adoption anniversary – one year to the day since we brought him home. It made me think about the afternoon we picked him out of the litter of six puppies born to a sweet poodle-schnauzer-something mix left on the highway three days before she gave birth. She had five white dogs and one dog the color of that dessert people on the East Coast …

7 Tips For Stress-Free Apartment Renting

Jessie Rosen - September 17, 2015

I was going to write an amazing post today about the fact that I drafted an entire Fantasy Football team with players that don’t have any domestic abuse record but then our bathroom overflowed with sewage for the second time this month, and I had to deal with that for several hours. Now I’m too exhausted and stressed to write anything except for this cautionary tale about …

Hump Day Help: Skin Dew, Message Movers, On Demand Sweat, Spray Paint

Jessie Rosen - September 16, 2015

Spreading some Hump Day Help again, this time in the form of four “products” that I’ve come to love. No money or gifts exchanged on these, just honest free advertising! Beauty Counter, Skin Dew My all-time favorite tinted moisturizer with SPF that’s light enough to wear all day but has enough coverage to serve as make-up. And better yet, all Beauty Counter products are made with the …

Why You (And I) Should Not Be Ashamed To Go To Therapy

Jessie Rosen - September 15, 2015

I just had a really positive experience working with a therapist, and I felt compelled to say that to all of you. I don’t think the details are that important. I have anxiety. I have frustration. I have issues, like any human. Mine were getting in the way of happy days, healthy relationships and good work. I didn’t like that one bit, so I decided …

Introducing My YA Novel!

Jessie Rosen - September 10, 2015

Today is a really exciting day. As I’ve hinted at for the past year and a half, I wrote a YA novel and to make matters even more exciting, the fine people at Full Fathom Five published it! Look! Here it is on their website! They included a picture of me (by the great Jenny Anderson) so you can be sure this is all true information. …

September 2015