What I Learned Picking an Old Hobby Back Up Again
Sometimes you can learn just as much from returning to your old ways as by trying something new. When I was in middle school, I started babysitting for one of our family’s next-door neighbors after school. Each weekday when I…
How to Be Happy Alone
It might seem impossible, but you can be happy with yourself, even when you’re all alone. I’ve never considered myself a loner, per se, but I am by most definitions someone who would fall into that category. I spend much…
College Doesn’t Prepare You for the Post-Graduation Slump
But that doesn’t mean you won’t survive it. When I graduated college, I was on top of the world. I’d worked long and hard to finish my degree — late nights, insufferable classes, long hours at work and school — it was…
Falling Behind in Writing and…Life
A stream of consciousness post… Some days it feels like it takes all I can do to not fall behind on everything. It’s hard enough to go through the day to day–work, food, pets, bills, exercise, grocery shopping, errand running,…
Don’t Let Fear Get to You
Over the course of the past several weeks I feel like I have been hit with the same kind of advice coming at me from so many different directions: fear is not a reason to say no. Admittedly, I didn’t…
It’s Hard to Find Yourself in the Midst of Life
I am a firm believer in talking about what’s hard. I think it is a disservice to everyone if we ignore what makes us uncomfortable or ashamed. There are things I believe that are hard things to believe, and I…
Growth Isn’t Always Easy
I, like most people, went through several growth spurts during middle school. For most of my life I’ve been taller than the majority of kids my age, so these spurts were unwelcome. I was more mature than many my age,…
I’m Still Turning Out (in Writing, in Life, in Everything)
“You say I turned out fine, I think I’m still turning out…” – AJR It’s something I’ve heard all my life – it’ll all turn out find in the end. Those later in life who have been successful, made a…
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