The night before my senior prom and about three weeks before I graduated high school, I found out that my dad was having an affair and had moved out. The ensuing divorce ripped my family apart, as divorce is wont to do. Luckily, I sort of got to escape the insanity by moving off to [...]
I kept a journal sporadically throughout my teen years–what teenage girl doesn’t?–but writing a blog is quite a different exercise. Your journal is your own, your secrets. But a blog is public for the world to see. Anyone who comes across your blog can read it. When I first started blogging, it was a journal [...]
I met Sarah long before we became friends: I registered her and Chris at Bed Bath & Beyond. Then we met again in Pummill 401 (the English Department‘s Graduate Assistants office). We kind of started being friends the first semester of grad school, but our friendship really began when we started running together in the [...]
As I mentioned in some of the other first 10 things that make me happy besides money, there are several common themes in my 100 Things list, friends being one which is already obvious. Nature is another theme that will continue to pop up here. Sometimes it happens in a place I’ve been a million [...]