I am a New Year’s Resolution person. Every year, I make a list (my favorite thing to do) of all the things I’m going to try to improve this year. My success is never properly tracked, and my resolutions are usually long forgotten by summertime. This is why I take the chance to form new… Read More 6 Habits to Cultivate This Season
As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized friendships are hard. Friendships can be way harder than romantic relationships at times. People’s expectations for friendships and romantic relationships are often very different. Maybe they shouldn’t be. When you’re a little kid, you tell your friends everything. Spending time with your friends is your favorite pastime. Things get more… Read More Friendships First: Being a Better Friend
If you’re a working college student like myself, or have any other combination of responsibilities in your life, you know how difficult it is to get and stay inspired on the daily! I have been struggling with finding inspiration since I started college, and even more once I started working again. These are some of… Read More Finding and Using Inspiration With A Busy Schedule
2017 has been a year of ups and downs, endings and beginnings, and an avalanche of change. My year began with brown hair, a boyfriend, a waitressing job, a final semester of high school, and an uncle alive and well. My life felt much more obligation-driven, and I was much more singular, despite being coupled… Read More What I’ve Learned In 2017 and Setting Intentions for 2018
Travel is STRESSFUL. From overpacking to forgetting important items, traffic, confusing signs, foreign languages, dirty bathrooms, delayed flights and the flights themselves, it’s easy to be overwhelmed. In the end, the excitement of being in a new place (or back in a familiar one) is worth the stress. All of the beautiful things you’ll see… Read More Travel Essentials: What I Wear + What’s In My Bag
In every human there are traits considered “unfavorable.” We are all an endless amalgamation of all of our preferences, habits, and quirks. The question is, do we allow some of these more prominent traits to shape our lives? The problem is not that we have these traits, but the way in which we develop… Read More Fatal Flaws: Cultivating Self-Awareness and Positive Habits
Repeat after me. It does not matter what college I go to. College does not have the power to validate me as a person. Period. Senior year is one long, obnoxious, drawn-out conversation about college: where everyone is applying, where they got in, where they really want to go, where they can afford to… Read More Why the College You Attend Does Not Validate You as a Person
When I started my blog, I started pinning articles giving instructions on how you should be writing blog posts, how you should be setting up your blog, what kind of content you should be writing about, the way you should be writing, why you have to use social media, and the best way to “get… Read More Why I’ve Been Having Trouble Blogging
Time is said to be not linear, but circular, and as we all learned in one of our first geometry lessons, circles are made of an infinite amount of points. Circles, like time, are never-ending. Not everyone believes in starting fresh on January 1st. Many people don’t make resolutions or never follow through with the… Read More Happy New Year! – A Guide to New Year’s Resolutions
Lorelai and Rory have definitively been the most iconic mother-daughter duo to grace a television set since their October 2000 debut in Gilmore Girls. Through fast-paced, witty conversation, these two caught the hearts of their audience and have become an intrinsic and beloved part of many homes and mother-daughter relationships, such as my own. Here… Read More 8 Life Lessons Learned From Gilmore Girls