Intro:

The New Year had me thinking a lot about goals, values, ambitions, motivations, life, and how excited I was to wear my new fuzzy socks. With all the talk of “look how far you’ve come in a year” and “can you believe that was only 1 year ago” I found myself even mo...

I don’t mean this in a self-deprecating way. I don’t say this to encourage compliments. I say this because it is entirely true and I am perfectly okay with that.

More than that, I could say the same about you and it would also be entirely true and I’d have to trust you...

Intro:

The New Year had me thinking a lot about goals, values, ambitions, motivations, life, and how excited I was to wear my new fuzzy socks. With all the talk of “look how far you’ve come in a year” and “can you believe that was only 1 year ago” I found myself even mo...

Two weeks ago, I flipped my calendar to February, and jotted down a few key words for future blog posts, added Galentine’s Day (the most important holiday) to February 13th, and then wrote a capital K and a capital M on February 15th.

Today is my best friend’s 23rd birt...

Intro:

The New Year had me thinking a lot about goals, values, ambitions, motivations, life, and how excited I was to wear my new fuzzy socks. With all the talk of “look how far you’ve come in a year” and “can you believe that was only 1 year ago” I found myself even mo...

Before I Begin

Of all the things The Smile Project has given me, the thing I am the most thankful for is the opportunity it has given me to be vulnerable.

A few months ago, I was talking to a friend about how most people hide their insecurities under some dark mask of sh...

Intro:

The New Year had me thinking a lot about goals, values, ambitions, motivations, life, and how excited I was to wear my new fuzzy socks. With all the talk of “look how far you’ve come in a year” and “can you believe that was only 1 year ago” I found myself even mo...

They say to write what you know and I don’t know what I know right now.

But I do know that I have to write.

So here we go.

Why is it that we always wait until everything is okay before we talk about it?

When I was 19, I got pretty sick. I was tossed around between doctors...