You know your mind is changing when you realize that the people you surround yourself with, in friendship and conversation, begin to look less like a copy & paste version of you. When I was younger, I wanted to fit in with ‘everybody else’ so badly. As I’ve gotten older, the beauty of individualism and […]
There’s going to be a night, in the very near future, where I do a one-stop-shop fix for a lot of issues that need to be taken care of. Tonight is not that night. It’s hard to take a night off when you’re used to constant 24/7 go-go-go action. Sometimes you need to stop and […]
Home is where the heart is where the home is. Home is where the heart is. Home is where the home is. Home. Heart. Home. Home. Home. After several years of adult life, it has sometimes been complicated to figure out exactly where ‘home’ is. After this visit back to Columbus for the holidays, it […]
Tomato. Tomato. “December has always been a very hard month for me…” It seems like not so long ago that I wrote those words. I’ve written that same phrase, in more words or less, almost every year for the past 4-5 years. It’s probably more like 6. Life is different now, but it doesn’t feel […]
Watching people fall off of the proverbial ‘friends list’ of life has been something I’ve gotten more comfortable with as time has gone by. Not because my affection for others has fallen, but because I’m realizing how much more important values and integrity are than increasingly-less-valuable friendships that have had wedges put between them by […]
You know you’re getting older when you begin to place your values before your wants, emotions, and finances. I’ve grown a lot in the past few years. I can’t say if I’ve grown more than the average twenty six year-old, as I don’t know what that looks like. Yet, I feel as if the short […]
“Have you hugged your grandparents, today?” was one of the opening quotes in a chapter of The Empty Hourglass, the book Opa wrote about his life. In a book filled with wild adventures consisting of war stories, encounters with wild animals, treacherous undercover operations, immigration to America, and the experiences he encountered as an orphan, one thing […]
[quote]The burden of originality is one that most people don’t want to accept. They’d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they’re supposed to like, what they’re supposed to buy, and what they’re supposed to laugh at. [/quote] Thinking back to the days of my Psych 100 classes at […]
[quote]When you’re taught to love everybody – including your enemies – what value does that place on love?[/quote] I remember a time where things used to be calmer. Stress was an overwhelming sensation alleviated by the pursuit of dreams. Laughter was something flowing quite freely and without an alcoholic propellant. Work was scarce but love […]
[quote]The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Read more: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/fight.html#ixzz1nsFU8ABv[/quote] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is no tomorrow. “I live like there’s no tomorrow” is usually the excuse to party hard enough to forget tomorrow could […]