• About Me,  Growing Up

    Summer Memories Last a Lifetime

    Maybe sometimes we feel afraid, but it’s all right The more you stay the same, the more they seem to change Don’t you think it’s strange?   Put Your Records On by Corrine Bailey Rae     Watching this video brought me back to my childhood.   Watching this video brought me back to this one summer of pure teenager happiness.   Growing up, I didn’t have many kids my age that lived in my neighborhood, so I excelled at playing alone, and getting lost in my own imagination. This imagination still lives on today, which is why I sometimes prefer to sit in a quiet room alone and let…

  • Growing Up

    Flooded Timelines with Love and Travel

    And you can never go back  To Avalon  Stolen with the bold and the beautiful  Those days are gone  Don’t you know those days are gone  And you can never go back  You Can Never Go Back by Jon McLaughlin      Love is such an interesting concept in your 20’s.   I am in the point in my life where my entire timeline looks like nothing but weddings, babies, and engagements. It is a place that was unfathomable even a few years ago for me. A few years ago, I was just happy to have one of my crushes acknowledge my existence. Actually, I was just happy to…

  • About Me

    The Coffee That I Need In The Morning

    “You’re the coffee that I need in the morning You’re my sunshine in the rain when it’s pouring Won’t you give yourself to me Give it all, oh”     It took me a long time to get to where I am, relationship wise.   I’ve been through a lot of bad relationships, and a  lot of dark times.   It took an amazing person to come into my life, and I’m thoroughly blessed that he came when I finally was open to another human being. I’m young, as some of my students say, “too young,” however; we are happy.    You’re the coffee that I need in the morning…