He’s moving back to Boston. “Are you okay?” my friend asks. “She needs to cry about it,” the other says. “I need to process,” I say. This chapter is coming to a close just as another one opens. It’s annoyingly poetic; maybe that’s how I know it has all turned out as it should. I lie in bed and my…
Sometimes love leaves and we don’t know why. We don’t get an explanation. We don’t get closure. We just have to move on. He felt like sunshine and electricity. I was hooked from the first kiss; making out in the parking garage entrance. Have you ever had someone push you against the wall of a glass elevator? One where everyone…
“She wants the chocolate tacos,” he laughs, the waitress doesn’t have to even finish laying out the dessert options. There is a twinkle in his eye and he winks. “It’s written all over your face,” he says. This is the moment I fell in love with him. “My diagonal girl,” is something he says often because I sleep diagonally in…
The year I was 23 was a climb. Endurance and strength. Remembering to stop, rest, breathe, and enjoy the view. I climbed with the safety of a rope, woven with the love, shared experience, and understanding of incredible friends and family. The year I was 23 started with a kiss… and oh what a foreshadow that was. Love, sex, and…
I walked in completely unassuming; it was just another Friday. And then, there he was, a mop of brown hair and piercing blue eyes. Our exchange was nothing more than a ‘Hello” but I was struck. By what, I didn’t know, but something in my soul stirred. This man was going to change my life, I could feel it, I…
One year ago, my mom was diagnosed with stage 3b breast cancer. It was October 19, 2019 that she called to tell me the news. I was shocked and devastated. I had accomplished something pretty big earlier that day and was getting a lot of congratulatory texts but, suddenly, none of that mattered. After my mom and I got off…
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…
