I have been absent from my blog as of late, trying to handle that all too familiar creative block – the one where I have about fourteen drafts in my queue, where I come home from work with the full intention of my night being devoted only to that of writing, and somehow – I […]
Life is good, like almost grossly good. I’m not kidding – I eat, sleep, breathe, and ooze joy from my pores. I wish there was an equation, a remedy I could give to people who are struggling and say “If you do a, b, and c then you will be happy.” But it’s not that […]
I had woken up on the wrong side of the bed yesterday. Better yet, I had thrown an existential temper tantrum that involved knocking some of my crystal collection and a bundle of sage off my nightstand, and then openly cursed my framed print that sat in simplicity and reminded me on the daily: “The […]
Last night I looked at my friend Amy. I mean you may not think a whole lot about looking at someone; you see people all the time. The difference is, last night I looked at my friend Amy for the first time in nearly seven months – in the same way I looked at so […]
Since I only see my family once a year, and the holidays are afoot, I made the executive decision to brave the mall today to try and find a holiday outfit that would give the illusion I was indeed an “adult” and appease my Grandparent’s worries about their son’s wayfarer daughter who doesn’t know where […]
Settling can mean a lot of things. Maybe you’re a pilgrim, you discovered the new world, and now you’re going to colonize it – I don’t know. Since it’s not 1620, I’m just going to go ahead and say that doesn’t seem likely. As a single twenty-something, to settle means something entirely different; it means […]
We’re expected to know, at a fairly young age, what it is we are supposed to be when we grow up. Like we have any concept or idea whatsoever about what the world is like, what professionalism and employment actually entails, or even what it means to be “grown up.” We come up with delusions […]
My household is in a state of unstoppable change. Some of us are staying, some of us are going – and when this equation involves three members of the female species it can only mean one thing: shit is everywhere. It’s lead to this mutual time of of us all going through us our stuff, […]
Once upon a time, I received an ivy plant as a gift from someone. They included a very nice placard that spelled out the meaning of ivy for me – saying that the plant conveyed messages of fidelity, friendship and affection as well as love. Now, the person who bestowed this offering upon me gave […]
Yesterday was one of “those days.” You know them, you’ve had them too. From the moment I woke up, I just wasn’t having it and I literally cursed the sun for rising and dawning on a new day. I dwelled about whether or not you can have a right or wrong side of your bed […]
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