Today

Today is not a good day. Today, my friendship of five years may be crumbling away because my responsibilities and obligations keep me from being able to be fully present. Today I’m stuck at work, alone way longer than I …

Achieving Dreams and Finding New Ones

I graduated from university this week. Four years of deadlines, demands and sleep deprivation culminated in the five seconds I spent on stage receiving the hood for my Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree. I shook hands, I smiled and …

Rollercoaster

Is anyone else ready for this year to be over? Just me? Okay, great. I totally get the whole “life has ups and downs” mantra and I’m very supportive of the whole going with the flow thing. But holy crap have …

Niche

I can honestly say a significant part of my deep anxieties stem from a fear of never belonging at all. I’ve never felt like I’ve truly fit in, at school, work, or with my group of friends. And since that …

Not So Bad

Sometime in the last month or so, my general doom and gloom attitude has taken a backseat. The shift has been almost imperceptible, even to myself, until a particularly hot shower brought it to the forefront of my mind – …

My Youth Is Yours

For me, everything happens in extremes. I struggle with living in the grey in-between and seem to always make decisions within a dichotomy. I’m all in or completely out. In love or completely indifferent. Completely invested, or untouchably distant. It’s …

Forget-Me-Not

After devoting the past several years of my life to the study of the human body and illness, I’ve become quite accepting of the idea of death. It’s not that I’m suddenly a thrill-seeker who’s all about the “carpe-diem” life (because hello, …

Off-Balance

Hello, yes, it’s me, I still exist. It’s been a short, but also long kind of month where I haven’t been busy, but haven’t exactly had time either. Not sure what that means? Me either. I guess I’ll jump right into the updates …

Fast-Forward

Shortly after my first day of high school, I started counting down the semesters I had left before I could move on. It’s not because high school was some horribly tragic transitory period for me, but simply because I felt …

Rules a Baby Blogger Should Break

Before I get into the thick of this post I feel I should make a few things clear: 1. By baby blogger, I don’t mean a blogger who writes about babies. Although if you do write about babies and you’re a …