sometimes i wish that i could keep my "people" from making mistakes. i wish that i could open up their brains, pour in everything that life has taught me & allow us both to carry on wiser, stronger, & completely more awesome lives. obviously. but i can't. sometimes...
last weekend i was in florida with a friend. one afternoon we were frolicking on the beach--and i do mean frolicking, it was perfection--when rain clouds began rolling in. we didn't want to go in yet; we were having too much fun. but then, not out of nowhere the bottom...
i sat in the floor and continued to stare at my nails. the course grating from the file suddenly seemingly annoyingly loud, but not loud enough to drown out the voices that were now booming overheard. i continued to let my eyes stay down, not in...
I think New Year's is strange. I get supremely excited for a new beginning, an opportunity to make new meaning. One door closes and another door opens. The pages turning; on to another chapter. A new title for a new year. And one that we can't...
O come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant Oh come ye O come ye to Bethlehem; come and behold him born the King of angels; O come let us adore him Christ the Lord. a song we've sang thousands of times, suddenly meaning more. we sang this at the Passion...
bffl, me, sister, sister's bffl--the original crew There are only two times of year that I absolutely do not hate having the tv on 24/7: the beginning of football season and during Christmas. I love all the cheesiness of every single Hallmark, animated, and adult Christmas movie. I am not partial....
photosource "It's a guy." I told her about the new friend I had made and the words barely left my lips before I heard exactly what I was expecting...
photosource You know what I am really tired of? Lies and liars. We sleep with lies. We tuck them in our purses. We stick them in our back pockets, fold them into the pages of our books. We nestle them under couch cushions and bind them around our...
Two years ago Iconfessed to my pretending. I admitted to not having it all together, to not being perfect, or doing all of the things I'm supposed to, or even beng as happy as I might appear. Tonight my confessions are about my fence-sitting.You see I...
