I wish I could say that you’ve learned, that you’re excelling that you’ve refocused your goals and you’re concentrating on improving. But all you’ve done is plan strategize formulate ideas suggest schedules that you break in a week. All you’ve done is prove that you’re weak unfocused easily sidetracked and inconsistent. I want nothing more ...

CW: Therapy, depression, Do you know the point in every romantic comedy when the main character hits rock bottom? They sit in sweatpants, wallowing in their sadness, eating junk food as they cry. For the past few years, I have been a few inches from rock bottom. I started counseling last year to develop better ...

My dreams are a different world now. My reality is much the same. A surprising year. It made us distant. It’s become normal, my reality- My reality is the same. It didn’t change much. I lost no one. But is this normal now? All I enjoy is virtual now. These days, distance is relative. A ...

It is easy to get so consumed with our busy schedules in our day-to-day lives that we forget to take the time to step back recognize what we are grateful for, whether they are simple things or complex. I am 100% guilty of being so focused and not taking enough time out of my days ...

I think about my loved ones who have passed very often, but there different times throughout the year that I do a great deal of reflecting as I believe that it does for anyone that experiences such a loss. I am reminded of a poem called The Dash by Linda Ellis. There are many parts ...

October 10, 2015 Sunday mornings in October meant getting up early to work at the Hilti Ballfields. Dad served as the head groundskeeper there, making sure that the fields were in order for the little league games. He hired my siblings and I to walk the fields an hour before dawn to pick up the ...

The whole situation is just like weird. I miss him, I truly do. I am not really sure what aspect in particular, but I do know I miss him. Which I guess is a normal part of a break up. Our drive was not long nor short; it still wore down the tires. But the ...

I close my eyes, I see myself in the mirror. Reflecting back is all I wish not to see. I stare at my walk to school this morning– oh, how the deceptive sun convinced me not to bring a jacket. Oh, how the trees overcame the crash of the wind, but I still felt its ...