Happy Thanksgiving to my sweet readers! I am so thankful for you and your willingness to let me invade your Facebook/Instagram/inbox each week. You may not realize it, but you are a huge part of my life! I wouldn't be here today, writing and babbling and taking pictures and sharing my life, without ...
grieving as a parent
Last year I lost my dad. He passed away suddenly and painfully and the experience forever changed the landscape of my family. His passing infiltrated my DNA and changed me along with it; I am both harder and softer, more understanding yet more suspicious. During the time of his passing, I was put ...
the jealousy bug
I've been bitten by the comparison bug lately. It's left me itchy, grumpy, unable to sleep, and downright pessimistic. Has this ever happened to you? I am trying to apply the hundreds of motivational quotes rampant on Pinterest to my current dilemma, yet I can't stop comparing myself ...
my not-resolutions new year’s resolutions
I've really never been one for New Year's Resolutions. I never understood the point of using the first of the year to start on a goal when the rest of the year could easily work. However, as I get older, I am beginning to understand the purpose behind the overwhelming concept of New Year's ...
Best of 2014
I first obtained my passport in 2005 as a junior in college prepping to study abroad. The expiration, 10 years from that date, is 2015. At the time that seemed like such an eternity away. I could not fathom the year 2015! 2015 might as well have been a futuristic dream involving flying cars and ...
