Lame is the new cool. Embrace it.
Original Instagram Post – August 17, 2018 #OnThisDay 16 years ago, the day after a full arena of #XGames spectators, including myself, collectively held our breath, waiting for @tjlavin to regain consciousness after a gnarly fall, he returned to the venue all smiles. He was willing and eager to oblige all of us fangirls …
Original Facebook Post – August 6, 2018 I didn’t know what to expect walking back through those doors that I had dreamed of so many times while we were away…Doors that housed fractured relationships, and broken hearts, but with walls that echoed warmth, and laughter, and love. Doors that I exited as one person, but …
Part II Whenever my heart has shattered in life, I’ve taken a while to bathe in my depression. I submerge myself in it until I find what I didn’t know I was looking for. In my youth, I would drown before realizing it. With age I have gotten better at navigating through the darkness. What …
Part I Here I am, a few weeks into being dragged kicking and screaming over the threshold into my late thirties, and I can’t help but feel like a switch has been flipped. Though it’s too soon to tell which direction it turned, there has been a definite shift in perspective. It has added to …
Original Instagram Post – October 3, 2017 October 2, 2004…I stepped into that building for orientation. I was completely convinced that this was just a temporary job, a holdover until I found a management position elsewhere. In my interview the STL told me I was overqualified, but they would be happy to have me. …
If you’ve been following my journey, you’ve learned a few things about me by now. I had a rollercoaster of a childhood, which landed me in the state of Pennsylvania just as I hit my teen years. The two years leading up to that I began my battles with depression and obesity. And I am …
In jest I often ask people “how is this my life?”. I don’t expect an answer, and I hadn’t really taken the time to backtrack through Memory Lane, to find the series of events that have brought me to my current juncture. I was having such a moment though, when mid-conversation I became lost in …
I’ve spoken at length about times in my life when death was preferable…the sadness, the hopelessness, and most effectively, the worthlessness. Late nights that found me weighing the pros and cons of death. At the heart of it all, I eventually realized that it wasn’t death that I desired, but the ceasing of existence. I …
It’s my Birthday week, and I tend to get a little extra sentimental this time of year. Mostly, despite how much I hate aging, it’s because I’m grateful to be alive. There was a period during my youth when death was a preferred option. I didn’t believe I had anything to offer the world. I …
Missing You Is Forever When reunited in my memory, You illuminate the room No foreshadow of the darkness, That would claim your life too soon With an arm around my shoulders, You share stories in my ear Culminating in a laughter, That seems to come from everywhere I lose myself in the sparkle, Of …