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Day One Thousand and One
On June 29, 2012, I created a list of 101 things I wanted to complete in 1001 days. Today is day one thousand and one, and I have a confession to make: I did…
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One Hour in Babies “R” Us
I should not be allowed in Babies “R” Us. I might be a woman in the prime of her baby-making years, but the last thing on my to-do list right now is painting a…
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Learning to Adult: The Waiting Place
In my last post I talked about my struggle to decide whether or not I should move to England this autumn for graduate school. I wrote that post because I was hoping for guidance.…
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Learning to Adult: Difficult Decisions
I’ve always been pretty independent. So, like most young and inexperienced teenagers, I jumped at the chance to start making my own real life decisions the moment I finished high school. The funny thing,…
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Learning to Adult: A Lesson in Gratitude
My days have kind of blurred by this week. I wake up and I go to work. After work I come home for an hour to change and eat. Then I go work again…
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When One Door Closes: The Fulbright Decision
The last year and a half has been kind of insane. I studied in Oxford the end of 2013. I went from barely knowing what I wanted to do with my life to being…
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Learning to Adult – Balance in the Waiting
If there has been a theme running through this blog and my life, it’s probably been balance. When I was in school I was trying to balance classes, work, internships, family time, study time,…
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A Christmas Blessing – Giving Him My Everything
As I’m writing this blog post it is approximately 1:50 a.m. on (technically) Christmas day. I’ve just spent the last two hours watching a movie while drinking tea, and about two hours before that…
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Being Honest: Losing Weight One Failure or Success at a Time
For those of you who might have been reading this blog for more than a few months, you might remember that I used to write a lot about my weight loss journey. You might…
Finding the Pieces
The story of how a lost boy found home
Finding the Pieces 