It’s funny how sometimes you can look up and realize that time has flown by much faster than you expected. The seasons have changed twice over, and you find yourself in a season both new and unexpected. Things that you did not mean to put down, you now find have begun to collect dust. Wins… Read More Moving Forward: Notes for Your Next Journey
While this year was initially meant to be one spent exploring a new city, it ultimately became one of me exploring and becoming familiar with myself in new ways. I was left to revisit and to also face for the first time some essential questions about and for myself…… Read More The Beauty in the Unplanned Lessons – The 26th Birthday Challenge
It was simultaneously distopyian to see a city boarded up in the midst of a pandemic and a heavy national guard presence as well as powerful to see so many people come out despite these facts not only where I was but across the world in support of recognizing that Black Lives Matter. I carried the sign and said her name. Once I got home, I was left with the question of “What next? What else can I do? And how can I be ok in the midst of this reality?”… Read More Breathing in the Pandemic – An Ode to Breonna Taylor
With the travel, adjustments, and lifestyle changes, including getting used to living a place that had a real winter, my first few months were spent trying to get comfortable and feel consistent in the city. I had set my sights on March as the month that things would get a bit warmer; I’d be travel free; and I’d have time to really start to be social, meet people, and build a life. I was able to do one brunch; then BOOM, I found myself being put on work from home due to the coronavirus. While I am grateful to still be working, this was not how I expected my move to go. . I thought going to Niagara Falls was going to be the start of a continual high. Now the changes that I was prepared for now had their own changes on top of changes….… Read More Niagara Falls Queen to a DMV Quarantine: Making Space During Change
2019 was a year that began with a lot of personal hope and ambition. I was eager to share my blog after sitting on the idea for almost a year. I was in a job that had me feeling beyond burnt out; but I just knew that I would be coming into a new job soon since I had been applying places, networking, and meeting with a career counselor for months…… Read More Looking Back to Look Forward: A Honest Note on 2019
I was supposed to be going to Radium Springs the next day, and my mind immediately went to the thought that I would no longer be able to go. I did not yet realize that I would not be doing any of my trips outside of the one to Stone Mountain, 5 minutes from my home, for a few months after this. … Read More Tales from 24 – A Quarter Century Loading…
While there was a literal storm raging around me, I was able to find peace with myself for my birthday by seeing this as an opportunity and spending time with myself simply doing the things that I enjoy.… Read More Cheers to 24! – Or Maybe a Tropical Storm Instead?