Reflections on Holiday Magic

Once again a new year is upon us and has arrived much faster than I anticipated. It’s funny how time seems to go faster as you get older. Does it feel that way for you? Time has a unique way of sneaking up on us. I finally started a re-read of “A Christmas Carol” by…

Forging Life and Who We Want to Be

Someone asked me recently why the worst kept happening to her over and over again the last few years. Listening to her story as she turned to me for answers I found myself not knowing what to say that can help her. For some reason, the first thing that came to my mind was an…

Lost Anxiety

Hello, Everyone, I wrote this poem as an assignment for school and thought I would share it because I think that everyone has moments where they are so caught up in everyday life that we forget the little things in nature happening outside and what it feels like to be calm. With this spring coming,…

A Year of Change

I know we as a people like to think and feel we are in control and in charge of our daily lives. And to some extent, that is very true. However, change can happen in our lives that we have no say in the matter. In one moment, one call, one text, one second, our…

A Ten-Year Lesson

This has been a very bizarre week for me. I guess, with this time of year, many people can say the same thing. Next week is a ten-year anniversary of mine and a friend who knew this asked me what have I learned the most in the last ten years. She asked me what that…

For My Uncle Wes

I believe this article is long overdue. The topic and words have been floating in my mind for a very long time trying to find its words to the page which I am typing. The truth is, I have never been very good at this. The opening up of my feelings. I have tried in…

Cutting A Work-A-Holic Addiction and Enjoying Life

Over the last few weeks, many different things have been on my mind. For starters, I have thought how fast time has gone by. It took someone to take me away from my desk and go somewhere new to realize how much I have been missing. Lately, I have spent more time at work or…

Curious Thoughts

Sometimes we find ourselves in a new chapter in our lives and not sure how we ended up there. As I look around my life I can feel the same sort of feeling. Change is in the air, and with it, I wonder what new experiences will be blown my way. In some ways, change…

If You Don’t Start Somewhere, You Never Go Anywhere

This past month for me has been like a hurricane of change. I moved across America, my finals for a class in my grad school were due, and I am still living out of a suitcase in a hotel for another week. As a result, I have had a hard time focusing and starting my…

My Thoughts on Cheesy

Have you ever been in the middle of a conversation and felt very out of place? Maybe you sat there as I did thinking, how can my friends say these things? I found myself in this situation and started laughing. I told them how I loved them all, but they are making me laugh. The…