Full Steam Ahead

It’s the new year and I’m full steam ahead. I have been chronicling my life, my whole life, and I don’t think I have EVER had the year I envisioned when I sit down on December 31st and think back to January 1st. For the past decade, I have been chasing peace, embracing peace, andContinue reading “Full Steam Ahead”

The Community Conversation

This has been a year of discovery for me. I have learned more of what I need to survive as a person in different situations than I thought I would have to do than ever before. One thing I’ve realized in the last 365 days or so is that I need community; and this wasContinue reading “The Community Conversation”

When you know better, Do better.

I am writing this to clear my mind. I feel like I have been working my job for months but it has only been three weeks. I have had trouble writing and getting back in the swing of things. I think it is because I am over thinking everything, something I am want to do,Continue reading “When you know better, Do better.”

What does burnout look like? And how I’m doing my best to fight through it.

Some folks have a problem with the DSM getting routine content checks and updates. The DSM or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR) is a manual DSM-5-TR that details “the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States”. It is what helps psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, andContinue reading “What does burnout look like? And how I’m doing my best to fight through it.”

A Match-less Marriage: Do Matches from Online Dating Apps even Marry?

It was Nora Ephron’s 1998 romantic comedy, You’ve Got Mail, that introduced many of us to the concept of online dating and matchmaking. Since then both the phenomenon and the means by which we practice it have gone through many iterations. Some strange (Bristlr: A dating app for men with beards and those who loveContinue reading “A Match-less Marriage: Do Matches from Online Dating Apps even Marry?”

The Unaddressed side-effects of COVID Quarantine

I got COVID on the way home to visit my family for Christmas and let me tell you it is an interesting experience. As someone who has studied the human body in-depth and knows how viruses work, this has been an extraordinary time of observation. I do not get sick often; maybe once every twoContinue reading “The Unaddressed side-effects of COVID Quarantine”

An End and A Beginning

By the time this posts I will be almost home. A semester abroad complete and a new adventure waiting for me. I am happy. I am grateful. I feel blessed but most of all I feel ready. I am so ready to get this end over with that I don’t know what to do. However,Continue reading “An End and A Beginning”

Empty Space Love

What is the word for missing someone so much you have a hole in your heart but when you’re with them you fall back into old routines so quickly it’s like you were never apart? That feeling that is just so strong that you have to remind yourself that they are not just hanging outContinue reading “Empty Space Love”

The Importance of Privacy

I have recently become friends with a lot of younger Millennials, older Gen-Zers, and those that inhabit the space in between. As I have shared before I am very private. I like to keep me, my family, and my things to myself. So, whenever my newer acquaintances ask me if they can follow me onContinue reading “The Importance of Privacy”