In a social media age based on ‘likes’ how do we talk about things we don’t like about ourselves? Things that are not perfectly filtered or match any aesthetic. Things that are not trendy or enjoyable to look at. On social media we share the high notes of our lives. And why shouldn’t we? As…
I have always prided myself on my inherant love for winter. The fact that I embrace the cold and ice because I like sweaters and coffee and fluffy snow and boots and scarves and fireplaces and also I immediately burn if the sun looks at me. And for someone who is thrown into a state…
Everything changed the day that I realized I could be whatever kind of human I want to be. Sometimes you can feel in the bottom of your stomach and the tips of your shoulders what kind of human you should be. Sometimes your soul screams and your feet root to the ground and everything feels…
Mid-terms are starting, spring semester stress is real, life is busy, crazy, large, a lot. If you are on mental breakdown #4 today and it's only 10 am or you have only slept 7 hours in 3 days or if you can't stop watching Park and Rec in response to having too much to do…
Dear 2015, I think we started out with me resolving to drink more water and maybe work out a few more times a week. I think I also began this year excited for some change in my life; to graduate, climb some mountains, leave for school. And 2015 you have delivered on that one. During…
1. Change is scary/terrifying/life-shattering but it is good. 2. How someone treats you does not necessarily reflect anything about you. 3. The Law of Attraction is real. 4. How to do laundry (ish) 5. Moms know a lot of things. 6. It’s okay to not know everything-- or in some situations anything. 7. A lot…
That’s what I do a lot of lately. I think it’s a side effect of being 18. Or of being alive. Because the longer I’m alive the more certain I am that no one else really knows what they’re doing either. Most are reluctant to admit it. Most will seem a bit shell-shocked if you…
In August I moved to a place quite literally 150 times the population of my hometown. (I did the math.) The culture shock was very very real. And while my transition is not quite complete, here are a few things I’m thinking about while procrastinating studying Spanish: Things I miss about a place with 3…
One morning in early August I woke up and decided I was going to cut my hair off. So I did. 10 inches gone. I had been thinking about doing it for about 2 years but whenever I brought it up people would say “No! Keep it long!” “It won’t look as good short!” “I…
I've been showering in flip-flops for 2 weeks and have eaten too much pizza too late at night. I moved my entire life into an approximately 5x10 space and have fallen off my half-lofted twinXL bed twice. Only got lost 48574 times though! Hi college. Living in a dorm is nice because you can literally…
