If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might remember me talking about an influence in my life that’s kept me alive for the past almost 15 years. The organization To Write Love On Her Arms has been a part of my life since I was in high school. When I would look …
Five.Four.Three.Two.One. The ball drops and fireworks. Resolutions are made.People scream and people kiss and is it possible to change?Is it really truly possible to leave the past behind? Welcome to Midnight. We assign hope to many things. Each year, so many of us assign hope to this evening, to midnight, to welcoming in the New …
If hope is hard to find, keep looking. If you’re searching for a reason why…keep searching. “The stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and clouds. We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We have hope.” It can be so easy to forget, and I come back …
You and I are living stories. We all are. Everyone has parts of their story that they don’t like, pages and chapters they wish they could erase. It becomes hard to live in the present, and we frequently try to go back. To relive the past, to do it over. But within that same story, …
Year 27. A year I’d never thought I’d make it to. To be honest, I’m surprised every year when I turn a year older. It just always feels like an accomplishment, like I survived once again despite the odds being stacked against me. Year 26 was brutal. Most of it life circumstances, some of it …