Friday, December 28, 2018

FAREWELL, 2018 // a reflection

In this year, I will turn twenty.

I will finish my first year of college and begin my second. Hopefully by then–more specifically by the end of the year–I will have somewhat of a solidified sense of who I am and what I …

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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

GROWING PAINS // a poetry collection

Originally created as a poetry final, Growing Pains captures the tense emotions of my first four months away at college in New York. It is told in five parts through a collage of photographs, journal entires, and paint…

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Sunday, November 4, 2018

NINETEEN.

Having a birthday away from home is strange.

There's a point that you reach in your life where you genuinely feel like an adult. Despite being eighteen for the past year, dealing with applying to college and sortin…

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Saturday, November 3, 2018

OCTOBER // it's okay to not be okay

October was a rollercoaster of emotions.

There is no way to entirely explain all that happened in the past month except to say that, though it was one of the hardest months of my life, I am immensely grateful for what …

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Monday, October 8, 2018

Anxiety

In honor of mental health awareness week, I wanted to share my experience with anxiety to remind those who may be going through the same things as I am that you are not alone, and to remind everyone that you never know …

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Me // September 2018

In September of 2018, the worst thing I did for myself was let myself drink coffee.

I already knew coffee and I didn't mix, yet I keep going back to it. It's like there's a silent desire pulling me towards …

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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Make the Most Out of Each Day

I’m always looking to improve my life to get more out of each day. 
Finding a way to balance everything that you want to do can be very hard at any point in life.
College has definitely been my biggest challenge to find a…

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Friday, September 14, 2018

Which Way Is The Right Way

To those who are trying to decide where to go next,

I never would have defined myself as daring. 

Sure, I was a kid who was often too curious for her own good and I would take leaps that ended in scratched up knees. But t…

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Friday, September 7, 2018

Stillness

September 7th, 2018
I fall asleep to rumbling engines and honking horns. 


I wake up and see a brick building apartment staring back at me. Sometimes it's early enough that rising sun reflects on the waking sky. I see …

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Friday, August 24, 2018

The Summer Where Everything Changed

(hold on folks, this one's a long one)


This summer has been filled with a lot of blank space.

It was also the summer where everything changed. 
Long days, hot and humid, filled with either working or finding ways to di…

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