I wish I had some cool bruise. Instead I just have what looks like a shadowy rash near my right cheekbone. And an asymmetrical smile.  I...

When I was in college, one of my good friends often repeated the phrase, “Safety never takes a vacation.” Though I didn’t take it...

Last night I had a dream. A dream that, like a Hallmark Christmas movie, I reacquainted with my first boyfriend and found it to be...

It’s funny. All the responses I get when I say I want to be single. “You’re afraid to fall in love.” “It’s not so bad.” “You’re lying to...

A On my mind you will stay I can’t hide From the pain So Ill linger In the zen You took me to places I’d never been Remember when we...

I’d like to forget about the day I texted a friend to say that I was being held hostage in an Urgent Care. I’d like to forget about it...

When I was in high school, I couldn’t wait for the skin benefits I was told would come with getting a little older. Though I didn’t have...

I have never been in love. I’ve come to terms with that recently. I’ve been in two serious relationships. And I said I love you to both...

Olivia Rodrigo recently came out with a song about when pretty isn’t pretty enough, and it got me thinking about a different angle. The...

I almost made it to my thirties without having experienced extreme tragedy. In the last year of my 20s, I lost a best friend. Someone I...

I’m a server at a restaurant that was in the news for having two chefs die within the span of two months-due to addiction. Both of these...

I started this blog with a few rather personal tell-all accounts from my past, but an entirely different topic came tugging at me...

I received an inner calling recently to write about my past experiences being enrolled in an Academy. Two dreams about it materialized...

A few years ago I was the fittest I had ever been, from a visual perspective. A lot of people said so. I looked amazing, more attractive....