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Swing Dresses & Fair Trade Jewelry
Hi everyone! So this week has been a bad blogging week for me. I've been working on a few other projects, so I haven't really had a lot...
Jun 8, 20162 min read


A Gilmore Girls Adventure
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you probably know Gilmore Girls is kind of a big deal right now. It all started...
Jun 3, 20162 min read


The Safest Place I Know
We live in a world that constantly encourages us to cover up. I’m not just talking about physically, though there is certainly a billion...
Jun 2, 20163 min read


Why We Have More Than We Realize
Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great three day weekend. I sure did, since I ventured out to a nearby lake and forest which meant the...
May 31, 20162 min read


The Greatest Book Haul of All Time
I'm not sure exactly what it is about the last couple of weeks, but I have been buying books like crazy. It's been great. Then I won a...
May 27, 20163 min read


How to Create Emotionally Charged Stories
I finished reading Me Before You recently - also known as the new movie everyone is talking about (see the trailer here if you haven't, I...
May 25, 20163 min read


The Value I Found in the Enneagram
I recently realized that I've been familiar with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator since I was eighteen, which means it's almost (but not...
May 25, 20166 min read


What I'm Learning About Becoming Poor in Spirit
I briefly mentioned before that I've been reading a book called Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by D. Martyn Lloyd Jones. It only took...
May 23, 20163 min read


My 30 Before 30 Bucket List
Happy Friday everyone! If you've been following my blog for awhile, you've probably heard me say I'm not a huge fan of bucket lists or...
May 20, 20162 min read


How to Survive A Summer Road Trip
I've been on more road trips with my family than I can count. Even though I love flying, I have to admit there's a certain appeal to...
May 19, 20163 min read


Choosing Messy and Spontaneous Over Perfect
All things considered, there are really only two types of people in the world. There's the organized go-getters with to do lists for...
May 16, 20162 min read


May Favorites
I hope you've been having a lovely May! Here's how my month is looking so far... Reading... The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George....
May 13, 20162 min read


A Letter to 2016 Graduates (From a 2015 Grad)
I graduated college exactly a year ago, which is kind of mind-blowing. Sometimes I feel like I was still in school just a few months ago....
May 12, 20163 min read


Finding Myself in the Imperfect Present
I’ve always been a future-oriented type of person. But really, that’s just the nice way of saying I’ve always been a head-in-the-clouds...
May 9, 20162 min read


The Beautiful, Humbling Journey of Realizing What A Mess You Are
There's a (tongue in cheek) warning in the church world not to pray for patience unless you're ready to have your patience tested. And wow..
May 9, 20162 min read


2016 Reading Challenge: April
At the beginning of this year, I decided to set out to read 3 books a month in three specific genres. Now that I'm out of school, I...
May 6, 20163 min read


Why Everyone Should Keep a Journal
I remember starting to journal when I was about eleven or twelve years old. It quickly became a habit that I cultivated almost daily,...
May 4, 20163 min read


Writing Schedules vs. Word Count Goals (A Camp Nanowrimo Update)
It's the end of April, which means it's time for my promised Camp Nanowrimo update. First, the good news: less than one week into Camp...
Apr 29, 20162 min read


Why I Love Nature
Sometimes I'll look at a picture or video of a canyon, mountain range or forest full of tall trees, and all I want to do is book a flight...
Apr 28, 20162 min read


Want to Learn Humility? Work Retail...
When I first started working my retail job two years ago, it honestly didn't seem so bad. Sure, there were bad days, but I never really...
Apr 26, 20162 min read
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