i am ready for 2018 / not because 2017 was bad / but because 2018 sounds brave / a bracelet on my wrist says fearless / not because i am / but because i want to be / This year I read the book The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte. I was gifted this book…
Finals. Rough Mondays. Rejection. Parking tickets. Spilled coffee. All-nighters. Bad texts. There are lots of reasons to want to feel better. There are lots of ways to do it. Some classic pick-me-ups for when you need them most: Wear your favorite sweater. Liking how you look is important. Your best self might wear a Free…
I don't know how people survived before GPS. I use GoogleMaps to get home from work everyday even though it's the exact same route "just in case." So the concept of a life uncharted is absolutely terrifying to me. As humans, we have been following maps, stars and trails for eons, it's what we do.…
There it was. That feeling. Something in between petting a Golden Retriever and birthday candles. I call it a "home feeling." It's that feeling you get deep down in your stomach somewhere when something is truly and deeply right for you. Kind of like the opposite of nausea. The first time I felt it I…
’Tis the season to apply for summer internships and panic because so is everyone else and how can I really impress this recruiter using only my brief handshake and why are we all carrying around leather rectangles to look professional and also I hate the person I sound like in cover letters... Once upon a…
It’s happens when you’re sitting in an important meeting with important people and you feel like a lizard who scuttled its way in here, transformed into a human being and no one blinked an eye. It’s happens when you land your dream internship that you damn well earned but you’re just busy hoping they don’t…
Growing up, I was shy. Like hide-behind-my-dad’s-legs-everytime-a-human-looked-at-me-shy. But by middle school, this innate fear of people wore off, I came out of the shell and actually got moved to “Siberia” for talking too much in Spanish class in high school. So yeah I like people, I like parties, I like socializing. But not all the…
I actually love making resolutions. I love themed parties. And I love/hate the channel TLC. There— all of my guilty pleasures out at once. A new year doesn’t actually mean much I suppose-- the time period of a year is pretty arbitrary and more than anything just a way for human beings to grasp at…
(Photo by Maeve Scully Photography) darkness plays on darkness and we pretend we don’t hear we don’t feel we don’t know and that’s how it is. and the questions without question marks where were you why what were you wearing why what were you thinking why why why they start and don’t stop and that’s…
