I recently broke up with someone. It had been a short but intense relationship: the kind where we went immediately from being total strangers to spending almost all of our free time together. This is extremely unusual for me, but I went with it because it felt right — right…

This is an edited and condensed transcript of a conversation I had with author, podcaster, marketer and sometime comedian Ryan Williams in July of 2018. Highlights from it appear in the fifth issue of Tiny Revolutions, my newsletter for high-functioning crazy people. Sara: When did it become clear to you…

How I learned to release the reigns on my career and roam freely. — During the dot-com boom of the late ’90s, when I was 22, I interviewed for a job at a startup that was doing the then revolutionary business of putting government transactions online. Over a salad at a bougie cafe in midtown Atlanta, I fielded questions from the CEO about my…

Window Seat: A Valentine’s Day Song for Wherever You Are I’m single this Valentine’s Day, but I love love. Here’s a bunch of songs for various points on the relationship spectrum that aren’t usually celebrated with red roses and candy hearts. The Magnetic Fields — I Don’t Want to Get…

My interview with Kate Johnston and Sarah Williams, co-founders of the Women’s Center for Creative Work, appears in LA Canvas: "We're in the Business of Saying Yes" An Interview with the Women's Center for Creative Work The Women's Center for Creative work opened its doors in Frogtown in 2015 after springing up organically from a dinner…lacanvas.com

Published my most recent interview with visual artist Sean Higgins over at LA Canvas. Check it out. http://lacanvas.com/one-to-watch-la-artist-sean-higgins-suspends-reality/

I was wandering through shops in Atwater Village recently when I came across a book called You Are a Message: Meditations for the Creative Entrepreneur. I picked it up initially because of the glossy black and white cover featuring a triangle, which looks iconic, even though the book itself is…

Stephanie and I spoke on a hazy Tuesday morning in her modernist Los Feliz home, which has a commanding view of the downtown Los Angeles skyline. We met a few years ago in Chris Daley’s classes at Writing Workshops Los Angeles, and I instantly appreciated her extremely dry sense of…

For one of the first interviews in this series, I figured who better to feature than Karen Lentz, who is writing a book about work. I met Karen in a writing workshop a few years ago, and have always been impressed by her project, which asks really smart and thought…