The blog

Thoughts on life, friendships, adulting, and all the above

  • Are you really resting?

    Is it just me, or does down-time seem hard to come by? Is it that you really don’t have the time to rest, or do you just not know how to rest? I could have a 4 hour window in the middle of my day where I have absolutely nothing going on and still come Continue reading

  • For He has been good to me.

    Finally, I’m home after a long spring semester. My freshman year of college is complete, and I’m not entirely sure how to feel about it. So much has happened in the last 8 months that I don’t even know where to start. It’s safe to say that I have learned a tremendous amount of valuable Continue reading

  • The Beauty of Trust & the Art of Letting Go

    If you’ve been following my blogs throughout the last few months, I’m sure you’ve picked up on the trend that my biggest struggle is letting go, whether that be expectations of myself, insecurities, the need to control my life (and sometimes others’), etc. I hesitated to write this blog on the grounds that I’ve probably Continue reading

  • An Honest Update

    I am in such a weird season in life. I remember being a kid when adults would ask me what I wanted to do with my life. I would elaborately explain to them the exact, highly detailed plan I had. Since the time I was about 8 years old, I was always fully prepared to Continue reading

  • A Rose on My Desk

    Today is Valentine’s Day. Today is also Ash Wednesday – the beginning of the Lent season. When I moved to St. George’s Episcopal in the 6th grade, I began practicing Lent. Every year I fast, and it is my favorite season of the church calendar. I am so thankful that Ash Wednesday fell on Valentine’s Continue reading

  • The Benefits of Burnout

    The amount of caffeine, Charles Stanley devotionals, FaceTime calls with Mom, and ABBA I’ve relied on to power me through this week has far exceeded the average. Never in my life have I felt so behind in all my responsibilities (thank you, chemistry 1211) and also so overwhelmed with emotions and big life decisions. Yesterday Continue reading

  • “Not I, but Christ”

    Wow…there is so much for me to write about. I have this painfully annoying tendency to push off blogging for as long possible despite how much I want to write. It’s some severe case of cognitive dissonance I have. As a psychology major, you would think I should know the solution to this problem, but Continue reading

  • Finding your spark again

    Do you ever feel like you’re just not yourself? You say and do and think things and then look back and go that sounded nothing like me or man I really feel like I’m on autopilot mode right now. Well, that’s been me for the last month or so. I feel like since coming to Continue reading

  • Slow and Steady Wins the Race

    For some reason, I have always been innately opposed to the “slow life.” When I heard people say “I just want to live a slow, simple life” I would immediately assume they were lazy and/or unaware of their potential to achieve great things. I wanted the world to know that I had potential, that I Continue reading

  • Some thoughts on life

    I completely forgot I had a blog. It crossed my mind this morning as I was walking to my 8:00am that oh I literally have an entire public writing platform. I could be sharing so many things. Why did I even start writing a blog? Now I HAVE to write. I’m not that interesting of Continue reading