Why am I writing? Should I continue to blog? Does my writing matter? I have been blogging a little over two years and this fall I started to question my blogging. I started blogging to get comfortable (being uncomfortable) with complete vulnerability. Through this process I realized I love to write and want to pursue a career as a…
Tag: holiday
I am Thankful for: Family
This is my fourth week home with my family. I came home to spend time with my new niece for her first Halloween and I stayed longer because I was very ill. Now that I am better, I am still here because the holidays are here and my family needs me at this time. I…
It’s Thanksgiving!
It’s Thankful Thursday and it’s Thanksgiving! Today is one of my favorite holidays. I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful day filled with joy and love. I hope the joy and love you feel today is felt everyday of your life. Take a moment today to think of the blessings or positive…
Share Kindness
We are an interconnected community and we all have the capacity to shape our communities both large and small.
Home Sweet Home
Welcome home. For many, this time of year is filled with reconnects, reunions and trips back to our home states, cities and towns. We head back to the places that shaped us in our early phases of life, we come home. For many coming home is a place where we can rest, rejuvenate and celebrate…
Appreciate the Good
Made a gingerbread house this month! I was 10, the last time I made a gingerbread house. I have a Polaroid of my best friend and I with the gingerbread house that we co-decorated. Decorating a house this year was fun and brought back childhood memories. I enjoyed being creative and doing a kid activity. …
Home for the Holidays
“We don’t remember days, we remember moments.” -Cesare Pavese Coming home for the holidays had a deep meaning for me since I moved to Los Angeles. My first visit home was for Thanksgiving in 2010. It had been two months since I moved, yet the move itself made home feel foreign. My life completely changed. …