My friend and I were sitting in her sister’s apartment in Fairfax, VA when our phones alerted us to the breaking news: Ruth Bader Ginsberg has passed away. Definitely not the headline we were expecting to see. We sat on the couch in shock, reading the news articles as they came in, no longer paying attention to the show we…
It comes in waves. Sometimes, it just washes over my feet before receding. Sometimes, it’s a tsunami, dragging me down, pulling me under. When the water is at my feet, I see car rides. It’s 2am with the windows down as the city skyline fades into the distance. It’s getting lost and long conversations and country music turned up loud.…
Two years ago, when I turned 20, I wrote a blog post called The Year I Was Nineteen reflecting back on all I had done that year. I didn’t write one for 20 but I’m bringing it back this year! Spending my birthday in quarantine definitely isn’t my first choice so it’s nice to look back at all of the…
Just going to jump right into this and say, what a time to be alive. These past couple of weeks have been crazy and chaotic and unnerving. Everything is so unknown and that’s a scary thing. I’ve been trying to be optimistic and not panic about all of the uncertainty. What I’ve struggled to wrap my mind around is that…
“The thing you are most afraid to write. Write that.” ~ Advice to young writers. I have seen this pinned multiple times on Pinterest but never thought much of it until I was struggling with this blog. I have a lot of ideas; I cook a lot of really fun things I could share. I’ve read some really phenomenal books…
I only have twenty-one days left here in Ghana. This seems absolutely crazy to me because I still so vividly remember being in the airport getting ready to leave. I remember going through security and the huge mess that made of my perfectly packed carry on. As I was putting my things back in, I found a letter that my…
I’m going to jump right into this post today with some exciting news (exciting for me anyway😉)…I just got an internship for next semester! In addition to working at the library, I am the new Social Media and Promotions Intern for my school’s study abroad office!! I am SO excited and I can’t wait to get started. I interviewed for…
The year I was nineteen, I threw caution to the wind.I ran a half marathon to make myself proud. I cried and laughed at the finish line with some of the most inspiring and empowering women I’ve ever met. When I was nineteen, I visited nine countries. I backpacked Europe and studied abroad in Ghana. I hiked up mountains in…
October 2017. It has been one hell of a month. With emphasis on the word hell for good reason. It has been one of the hardest months of my life but with challenge comes growth, and as we near the end of this October I’ve been reflecting back on everything that happened and everything that I felt. It’s a lot…
I was listening to my Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist the other day when a song came on. It wasn’t like a normal song though, it was really just someone talking with some soft instrumental music in the background. It was called ‘Almost’ by Your World Within. Something that really stuck with me from this song was the lyrics “I will…
