my keyboard confessions
The Gift of Time
Hello sunshine. It’s been a while! Though I’m not sure how many of you were avidly waiting for this post, I’d like to apologize for the derailment of my post schedule. Life has been chaotic to say the least! If you read my last blog post you know I was struggling through some complicated feelings […]
Dreaded Change
I’d like to begin by being completely transparent with you. Although I’ve always been good at finding the brightside, I’ve never quite been able to escape the dreaded feeling of change. Most military children you talk to will tell you that moving around often made them great at making new friends and incredibly adaptable. […]
Who Are You?
There’s a quote by Carl Jung that states “The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.” I would love for you to read that quote again, and then once more for good measure. Did the weight of those words hit you like a ton […]
The Big Chop
Every girl has considered the bob at some point or another. We see photos on Pinterest of girls with chic cool-girl short hair and we start to wonder if we could maybe pull it off too. Well, if you haven’t noticed yet… there is a bit of a bob epidemic spreading, and I fell victim […]
The Nice Friend
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been told “you’re being way too nice, if it were me I would’ve…”. You can’t see me but I’m raising my hand. I’ve spent my life being “the nice friend”, but recently I’ve realized that I allowed my softness and sensitivity to become complacency and passiveness. It was as […]
Birthday Blues
Birthdays. We have one every single year at the same time and let’s be real, they’re almost always a letdown (stick with me here). We wake up on our birthdays expecting it to feel as magical and special as it did when we were 5. Breakfast in bed, surprise parties, all of our friends in […]
Growing Up
If you read my first blog post, you may know that this site began as part of a project I’m working on in my final semester of college (where did the last four years go?). Which has led me to the scary realization that impending adulthood is coming sooner rather than later. I ran to […]