How many times have you let fear stop you? Think about it for a minute. For myself, I can say that I’ve let it stop me dead in my tracks quite a few times. In retrospect, the only reason I had to not reach that next goal was that I was scared. So yes, you…
Ah, Black Friday. A day right on the heels of Thanksgiving that promotes our need want for more than what we already have. Oh, and you can get the lowest prices of the entire season, so that validates the gratitude we expressed the day before because, I mean, it’s on sale. On top of that,…
Superficial: external or outward; shallow, not profound or thorough; apparent rather than real. *In the spirit of this post, please enjoy accompanying images I’ve taken that were never meant to end up on the Internet* I’m guilty of it on my own Instagram: I love creating an aesthetic in how my feed looks. This goes…
When I was in third grade, my teacher made an exciting announcement: we were able to submit our own creative writing to my school’s literary magazine. If our writing got picked, we would be published in the magazine available to the whole school. As you might be able to imagine, the thought of that left…
My creativity intimidates me. It sounds backwards and odd when I actually write it out, but it’s true. Something that used to be my escape is now something I fear. But I don’t think it’s necessarily the creativity or the writing (in my case) themselves that incite this fear; it’s the potential for failure. In…
The last couple of weeks have been c r a z y and I feel like I’ve been running in circles just trying to get everything done. I’ve been struggling with sleeping well as of late (more on that in a future post), so I’ve just been trying to get through the days doing what…
