Category: Life as I know it
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What a Social Media Pause Taught Me
I took a 4 month break from an app I used every day, Instagram. I loved making stories, sharing my life with the world, sharing my struggles and joys and all the things I thought were fascinating and cool. I loved asking questions and interacting with strangers and friends alike. I loved keeping up with…
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A Temporary Love Story
But most of us experience temporary love in so many different forms and are never grateful for it because it “didn’t last”. Why does it need to last a lifetime for it to be meaningful, life changing or beautiful?
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The One With The Epiphany About Crying
Everything was making me cry. I didn’t go a single day in a month without breaking down. Beautiful things made me cry, sad stories made me cry, happy tears, heartbreak tears, I cried them all! I was convinced something was wrong with me and I needed medical help.Â
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My First Covidversary
How a year later, Covid still controls parts of my life and why not being able to smell is both a blessing and a curse. I’m at the top of the flight of stairs I just climbed, there are a total of ten. They are nothing special. Basic, standard steps that lead up to another…
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An Apple A Day
How My Life Changed When I quit my job and Moved Across the Country without a Plan or a purpose “Must be nice to be able to quit your job and go hiking all the time”, “you’re so lucky”, “I couldn’t do what you did, I don’t have the money”. These are things people have…
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From the Archives…
I love to write. I always have. It used to be on “full scap” paper behind a blue writing folder and I would press so hard with my pencil it would often break. I’d have a big “yikes” eraser next to me that would make countless smear lines through my “rough draft” as I tried…
Up My Alli 