Last weekend I had the extreme honor and pleasure of witnessing my baby brother graduate from boot camp, officially becoming a United States Marine. I am still astonished. Four days later, I look at him barely recognizing his now chiseled jaw and nearly bald head. What has...
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know, without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. {Alexis Carrel} A few weeks ago, I found myself in an interesting, new situation. It was an event that I knew was coming so, of course, I solicited feedback from my friends/mentor...
photo: phandroid I must admit to you: sometimes I talk to walls. It's true. Sometimes I stare straight at the blue, white, taupe, matte structure & just rattle off important details of my life. Walls are my best friend when I am feeling uncomfortable. I am in the middle of a story, chatting away, eyeball-to-eyeball,...
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 finally cried yesterday. It took the majority of the day for me to allow myself to get to a place where I was willing and able to "just let go" and allow the tears to flow. I was in the shower, which is painfully ironic because...
Well that was crazy! A whole week passed without my blog posts ever popping up in your inbox. Do not worry, your computer isn't on the fritz. I simply have not posted recently. I am struggling to find the balance between blogging and working on...
Some days I have this crazy idea that there is not enough goodness to go around. I read a post by Elizabeth Gilbert that makes me cry and laugh in 7.9 seconds. Then I open my email and Mark Manson has sent me this incredible article...
Today I woke up at 9am and quickly jet out on Mercury--my bike friend--into town for a hot yoga class. Yesterday after the co-op, I met a girl in passing who works at a new yoga studio that just opened a couple of months ago so I...
Courage begets Courage I need to let you in on a little secret. Sometimes I forget that you're here. Sometimes--as odd as it may sound--I forget that I pour my heart out onto open pages on my computer and then publish them for all of you...
Why sometimes I wish that I wasn't labelled a "Christian" ...
