Bittersweet Adolescence
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Dear Doe,
I have yet to cross paths with you to which I am most grateful for. You live down the street and I still haven’t seen you since freshman year. The same year you ruined our friendship forever. But that’s not fair to say to you. What’s fair to say is you ruined us before we Continue reading
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Forever December
December is that time of month in a young girls life where she gets a year closer to not being young anymore. It’s me. I’m the young girl. December is my birth month and the older I get, the more I love that my birthday is during the most beautiful month of the year. I Continue reading
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Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ is one of her most relatable pieces but overplayed, which is why people say otherwise. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had moments where you realized you were the only person in the room that everybody else saw as a burden. You probably have seen yourself as a lost Waldo, yet Continue reading
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Soon You’ll Get Better
I think I speak for not only my family but for everyone with a beloved mother that the hardest thing to experience in life is sickness. No matter the severity of any illness whether it’s a cold, flu, maybe even strep throat, it hurts to witness your mother get sick. The worst part of witnessing Continue reading
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Look After You
Last year I made a brave decision not every young person has to make. In fact, i’ve made a lot of decisions that not many people my age have ever had to make. Around this time last year, it would’ve been two and half months since I had last seen my boyfriend. We didn’t break Continue reading
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New Romantics
My sophomore year of high school, my heart was ransacked, my mind was twisted, my soul was diminished. It was all I ever wrote about. It was the only thing I knew for certain as a 15-year-old girl. My life has been saved by many people, myself included. I have many people to thank for Continue reading
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But Daddy I Love Him
If you would’ve told 7th grade me I was going to date someone entirely different than who I thought i’d be with at 18 and that he was going to be an army man who would later convince me to conjure my greatest, biggest fear of getting on a plane to visit him by myself, Continue reading
Midnight Reflections 