Category: Short reads and lists
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Ice
The best thing about nature is that it reveals things to you when you’re least expecting it. Today I woke up to fog that clouded my vision. Making it quite impossible to see even twenty feet in front of me, let alone the mile I would need to see on my planned hike. Disappointment was…
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Cooking For One
When people think about preparing a meal, theres usually a “standard” number of servings associated with the meal they want to make. In my head that standard number is either around four or two for more intimate circumstances. The most exciting part of cooking for most of us quickly becomes the part where we get…
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When life gives you lemons
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you limes, make limeade. And when life gives you strawberries, add them to your drinks to make them a little bit sweeter. The absolute theme of my life the past two years has been unexpected surprises. I started this blog writing to twenty-something’s like me…
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That time I lost my luggage in Greece
They say bad luck tends to occur in threes. Who “they” is, I’m not sure but so far in my experience “they” are correct. I don’t want to sit here and go through all the unlucky times I’ve had in my life but, I will say I’ve always heard the saying “when I rains it…
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A Silver Lining of “Imperfect” Parents
Family dynamics are pretty complex things in today’s day and age. One of the joys—I say that with sarcasm—of being a twenty something is experiencing a drastic change in our relationship with our parents. For some of us, this change can be attributed to growing pains and for others it is something much more significant.…
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Fickle
fickle. adjective. fick· le ˈfik-əl. : likely to change frequently without good reason : inconstant. Love is a fickle thing. Most of us have experienced the heartbreak of both the giving and receiving end of falling out of love. It’s a confusing feeling to go from planning your life, daily habits, the order of your…
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The Void
We accept the love we think we deserve. We accept the love that we think will fulfill us. That we think will fulfilll the void that we want to pretend isn’t there. Filling the void however is only temporary, eventually the water evaporates and the hole becomes more obvious than ever. If we are lucky…
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Inside out
I came here for peace, to run away from my problems that were all too consuming at home. Even when you run though everything eventually catches up to you. Running gives you a head start but, you can’t run forever. Eventually you get tired. You begin to feel yourself slowing down and eventually you have…
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Purpose
One of the themes I see many young people my age struggling with is having a sense of purpose. I know for myself it’s been a pretty prominent theme since I graduated college in December. Many of us go through our days going to work and coming home, doing our “jobs” on our career path,…
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30 things I’ve learned in my self love journey
At the beginning of my summer a series of events happened that shook up my world a little bit. That is part of why I started this blog and what launched a truly epic summer. Whether anyone actually reads this blog doesn’t quite matter to me because, I was able to reconnect with my passion…
Now What? 