Whoever came up with the saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?" I mean, seriously, who said that!!? Nothing about it sounds nice. First you're talking about sticks and stones and then breaking bones, following with a rousing...
I've had trouble writing the past few days. I've wanted to write but have felt silly writing what I feel are the same ridiculously happy ramblings over and over again. ...
News Years is hands down my least favorite holiday. I'm not a big "party-er." I prefer jeans (and/or sweats) to tights most days of the year. Don't get me wrong...
2011 was quite an eventful year for me. It brought a lot of growth, rejuvenation, healing, and light to my life. To say that I will miss it though, is probably false because the work it took to get to this new place was hard and...
My Nana always told me to not make any huge decisions until I was 25. Today commences the beginning of my twenty-fifth year. (I'm 24 today...
Well it's two days post-Christmas and as much as the world may have already moved on I'm still hanging on. I could cry at the end of the Christmas season. It seems so wrong. Months of anticipation, build up, preparation for The Gift unto the...
It's been raining all day. In fact it's been gloomy weather for the past few days.The real bummer of it all is not that it has been rainy or gloomy, but that it's also been seventy(ish) degrees outside! To interpret the season from the weather outside...
This is not the season of Thanksgiving. This holiday is not commercialized for it's thankfulness. It is not the holiday of giving thanks that we celebrate in November. It is not the one that calls for journalists to write "How to Instill Appreciation in Your...
This morning I wanted to write. I wanted to bang on my keys so hard they would believe they were being punished. I wanted to scream-type, and give my keyboard a piece of my mind or two. It would have been excellent, but probably less...
There are a few choice moments in life where you know "this is it." "This" is one of those moments that will change your life forever. We often think of these times as definitive moments in space where something happened, we made a decision, a...
