It’s the first five minute friday of the year! Woo! How fitting is the prompt tonight:   gonna actually attempt to do this one in five minutes, hehe.   GO: This is the first year in a long time (lonnnng time) that  I’m not going into it with a sure plan. When I was in… Read More five minute friday {first}

For the past few years I’ve taken up a one word resolution (I’d like to think i was ahead of the curve, before it got super popular, but whatever). I’ve had three years of words: 2013 was beautiful, 2014 was loved. I’ll have a 2016 word, but that’s for another post. While I felt like… Read More what a year of brave looks like.

I love to read, as most people know. Whether from exhaustion or mental capacity, my attention span as of late has been null… so I’m not reading as much as I used to. I do, however, read plenty- plenty– of blog posts. They’re short, sweet, and usually helpful or memorable to me in some way.… Read More my year {in blog posts}.

Have you ever thought about how helpful light is? Random question, I know. But it’s something I’ve been thinking about this week. Light–both in a literal and figurative sense– has been a recurring theme for me over the past few weeks (all of Advent, basically). It hasn’t been a particularly light-filled few months for me.… Read More light among us.

It’s 1:38am and I am wide awake.  I don’t know if it’s from sickness or exhaustion or mental anguish, but I am just worn out. Yet I cannot for the life of me sleep. I toss, I turn, I watch Chopped on Netflix until my eyes cross. But sleep just isn’t coming easily for me… Read More in the wilderness.

I was planning on doing a different post (something about the amazingness that was my binge-marathoning Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt this weekend) but then something else came up. By about noon today, I knew this was going to be a bad anxiety day. I  just couldn’t get this bad feeling to shake away. I was having… Read More lighting up my darkness.