snowfall.

Now, out in these parts (PNW, yo) we aren’t accustomed to receiving a 5 in. MIN of snowfall. I talked to a few family friends from Boston, where I spent a few years as a young gal, and they told me they hadn’t experienced a real winter yet and hadn’t received any snow.
Pretty peculiar, [...]

lifted.

As I was laying in bed, I thought about you.
I thought about you in this sort of insatiably frustrated and confused way.
After a good while I realized I am no better than the rest of those girls that, despite all other opportunities, seek after those that, simply put, just don’t work–don’t match our personas, the [...]

potter-worthy.

My father has an incredible gash on his forehead.
He received it the other night when he came over, rummaged through the shelves in our garage and decided to allow his head to fall into and get knicked by the corner of a picture frame. Ouch.
It was incredibly hard to not call him Harry Potter.

taking hits.

“You or nobody ain’t never gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit… it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward… how much you can take, and keep moving forward. If you know what you’re worth, go out and get what you’re worth. But you [...]

live on.

I realized, life is not just going to fall into place.  Everything is not just going to fall into place.  If you’re waiting for that to happen, it’s too late.
Don’t think that your foolish, whimsical dreams and innocent wishes are going to become truth on their own.  You have to make it work, and it [...]