I am already nostalgic for the days I'm living in.

I grew up hearing the phrase, “God won’t give you more than you can handle.” It was meant as an encouragement. Buck up, kiddo. You’re stronger than your circumstances. You can get through anything with God and a little bit of elbow grease. For a time, I believed that. I lived as if God would… Read more

Ah, vacation. When else can you justifiably wake up at 9, lay in bed until 2, and do nothing but scroll through facebook and read books all day? Without feeling guilty, that is. Now that school is back in session and Fall is right around the corner, there’s a summer-lovin’ part of my heart that… Read more

Sometimes going home feels like going backwards. Read more

People demand authenticity and flinch at honesty. They recoil at vulnerability like we’re embarrassed by the “over share.” It’s no wonder we’re so lonely. Read more

A pebble in my shoe, very much like a single pea beneath the mattress of a princess—that’s what wrong love always felt like to me. Read more

Ignorant, yet well-meaning people. Is there anyone in the world so dangerously unaware? Read more