personal life

When I was in fourth grade, I was almost kidnapped and it didn’t really hit me until a year ago.

I was just getting off of the school bus in …
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I am a girl who wants more. I want happiness. I want joy. I want love. I want success. I want more than the bare minimum. I don’t want to …
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Over a year ago, I saved a picture Beyonce posted on Instagram. I was fresh off a break up and the words hit me like a ton of bricks. In …
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“She’s married, he’s engaged, wow they’re making $60K+ a year fresh out of college with a real jobs already, young career women and men. Man, it must be nice …
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There’s too much distraction, too much clutter and too little meaning.

Our reverence for the simple things has fallen by the wayside.

I need to get away from it all, …
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A compilation of freshly brewed reads curated for twenty + thirty somethings.

Relax Mom. The following conversation happened this morning while I was eating my bowl of brown sugar and …
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I thought I had this self-love thing all figured out.

After years of being lost and confused, I finally realized that I was responsible for my own life and my …
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My friends and I arrive at a Japanese-American restaurant, and are served sushi by a Mexican-American. While dining, the Mexican-American sushi chef entertains us with a few funny stories about …
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Everything I came here to write is depressing and too personal, and I’m really afraid that I’m going to write this and get hate mail. And then I feel self-centered …
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The months leading up to my 30th birthday were filled with anxiety for reasons that were amplified by society and its standards of where I should be at that …
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