It has been a year. You felt it, I felt it, we all felt it. No one will escape this year unaffected. The ground gave way beneath our feet. Things we took for granted like driving into the office or sitting in a classroom of peers or even hugging your grandma vanished. Of all things, toilet ...
Princesses, Fairies, Dragons, and Knights. As children, playing dress-up and make-believe with friends never seemed to grow old. My childhood was magical. I mean literally, I found “magic” in all things I did. Not pulling the rabbit out of the hat stuff, that still scares me to this day. I am ...
It’s okay to start over. My college experience taught me this several times, in many diverse and often painful ways. It is a lesson I hope to continue to bring with me through every stage of life. Because day to day it is really easy to forget that this is your life. If you don’t like the ...
The delicious smell of warm cookies baking in the oven? Sign me up! Something came over me last weekend and I decided to try making some cookies. I truly can’t tell you the last time I have baked ... have I ever even really done that? Blame it on the changing seasons, blame it on living in a ...
Hellooo my sweet friends and family! This is such an exciting post to finally be publishing. As of September 1st, Austin and I officially moved into our first apartment. Woohoo! It has been quite the summer preparing for this move. Between going financially independent for the first time to ...
Business Casual, Business Professional, Casual, Formal? What do these words even mean and who on earth made these descriptions SO vague? I was told the dress code was “Business Casual” for my first day at my post-grad job. Honestly, I wasn’t really sure what that meant. I threw on a pair of ...
"Falafel? What is that? A dessert?" For those of you who are very much like my boyfriend Austin, the answer to your question is this… Falafel is a traditional Middle Eastern dish, supposedly originating somewhere in Egypt. It is made from ground chickpeas or fava beans and can be either fried ...
Hello friends, today I am coming to you with an Affirmation Wednesday! Feeling a wide and complex range of emotions is part of the pleasure of being human. Today’s affirmation list gives you a little bit of everything, a positive affirmation for you to take with you today no matter the ...
You did it! College diploma in one hand, tossing your graduation cap in the other. The world is your oyster, my friend. You are so excited to get out there and make BIG things happen. Aaaand then your sixth week of unemployment rolls around and you’ve color-coordinated your closet twice... Or ...