Why being unhappy, unglued, un-nerved, and bored out of your mind can actually be a FaBuLoUs thing. None of us would have a reason to do anything new or different with our lives if we were completely comfortable, content, and settled all the time. Dissatisfaction breads growth. I am in no way suggesting that it’s […]
Category: Life Lessons

Not always easy, but always worth it
Life isn’t always easy. I was interviewed by friend and fellow blogger and life-coach, Katie Hoffman (katiehoffmanblog.blogspot.com) a few days ago. During the interview she asked, “So what do you do when times get hard?” This question struck me as one of the most important questions one can ask. Roughly, I said something along the lines […]

The Best is Yet to Come
The Little Things If you haven’t noticed, I am the type to continually ask myself, “What does it all mean?” Part of me thinks that there no meaning, and that we have the ability to make life what we want it to be for us. That is an important part. You can miss out on […]

Haters Gonna Hate
Remember the mean girls from High School? Remember thinking that you would move on, grow up, and not have to deal with clicks or drama anymore? News Flash: Mean girls exist at EVERY age. I was once in a situation where I was thrown into a group of individuals who I was to travel along side. […]

Travel – Five Lessons in Contentment Learned in Europe
I am slightly obsessed with traveling. I went to Europe for the first time last summer, and quickly fell in love. I tried to travel with a group, but found that I preferred the freedom of traveling alone, quickly moving from city to city yet wandering slowly through each one. When I travel, I don’t […]

If You Can Dream It. . .
I am embarking on another world-traveling journey this week – to Israel. It is my heart and deepest desire to travel the world. Because of this, it felt appropriate to reflect on how far I’ve come. I added some posts from the distant painful past to the bottom of the page, but thought I would […]

The Train
Reduce Your Stress and Enjoy Your Life Have you ever heard the story of the train? In the story, the people on this fast moving, roller-coaster like train intend to exit the train when they reach this city or that city. They say they will get off the train to enjoy a city and stay awhile, but […]

Life-Lessons
Grab the Keys and Get in the Back Seat! My car died Monday night. It decided enough was enough – 189,131 miles was all it was able to give to me and krrrr-plunk, she was gone. No warning was given. She gave up the good fight. So I, of course, decided to improvise! […]

The Worst of the Worst
[I’m posting this because I think it’s okay to be this vulnerable. I guess I think it’s fine to expose yourself. . . because that shows you and who ever is listening how far you’ve come. Reading this, It doesn’t seem like me, not really even a very sad, scared, pessimistic version of me, but that’s […]