If you’ve asked, just receive, baby.
In my quietest dreams and tiniest downtimes, I asked to forget. For the visceral memories to fade into the doorframe and make space in the doorway for something new to enter. After forgiving myself and accepting the present as I knew it, I asked for a reason to find peace. – My dear friend Jesse […]
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On Fear Based Decisions, Yo
“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” – Michelle Obama In the past seven days, more than one person has told me they based a choice on fear. They have been “too scared” or “too weak” or “too afraid” to make a decision that was, indeed, scary, so […]
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Looking for Adventure
Lately, I’ve had a hard time remembering that adventure is everywhere. This is probably due to the fact that as September 17, 2013 wandered by, I found it near impossible not to remember where I was one year prior: putting on a brave face while Megs and Noah packed Huckleberry Fit, while my parents supervised, […]
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Opinions in LA
Megs and I have developed an uncanny ability to occasionally have the exact same reaction to dating stories. It’s not often, and it’s never about our own dating and relationships; nope, it’s only when someone else tells us a situation that we seem to be in perfect advising harmony. After shooting TakePart Live, we found […]
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Ah Yes, North Carolina Tears. That Happened.
Why the tears, lass? Megan said something of the sort, interrupting herself in between simultaneously giving me directions to our homestay and interviewing me about North Carolina Mike. While likely concerned about my ability to drive unfamiliar highways through a flash flood in my eyes, she was also genuinely concerned and a bit lost. Didn’t […]
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Pooling Around
Swimming laps allows my mind will wander all over the place while I pace back and forth, counting strokes haphazardly and occasionally checking to make sure no one is trying to throw a plugged in toaster into the pool.* I discovered this meditative state by accident when I was seventeen. Sometimes I would leave the […]
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What You Owe a First Date
Curled into a sitting ball on the hotel hallway carpet, the florescent light glints off of the number 141 on the hotel door above my head as I dial Will. True to his personality pre-trip, he’s been wonderfully supportive since I hit the road, sending short emails and witty texts, neither overly engaged nor acting […]
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