Wanderlust Interviews: Sally Hope #wildheart

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen a post or two about how Wildheart is open for new members this week, and on sale no less! I found Wildheart last December when I was participating in the Stratejoy Holiday Council. One of the most delightful parts of the Council is all the […]

April 11, 2014

Own It. #AirheadsNeeded

This post is sponsored by Airheads Candy. I received compensation for creating videos and blog posts. As always, all thoughts, feelings, and general absurdity are entirely my own. – This blog is an ongoing testament to my general struggles in my quest to be a functional human being. Airheads Candy is currently running a campaign […]

April 7, 2014

cows & capitals: a road trip

Last weekend I flew out to Lake Tahoe for a wedding. My grandpa was already going to be driving this way after the wedding, so my mom, sister, and I all tagged along rather than flying back. (Giving my grandma the option to fly back, which she infinitely preferred.) We drove through deserts and blizzards. […]

April 2, 2014

Skinny Limits Juice Cleanse

This post is sponsored by Skinny Limits, but all views are my own. I was offered one of their cleanses in exchange for an honest review. I was not given any additional compensation and this is my honest account of that experience. – I did a juice cleanse. I’m not much of a health nut, […]

March 26, 2014

happy birthday, explorer

My superhero dad turns another year older today. He’s in China on a long business trip. This year, for your birthday, we’ve decided to take you away from your family for three weeks at a time for the rest of the year! Happy birthday. Bitterness on his behalf aside, he is an adventurer at heart […]

March 23, 2014

thank you, for all of it

When I graduated college in 2010 I came home and had no plan. It was terrifying and exciting to suddenly be so profoundly unsure of what came next. I found myself disconnected from everyone and really unsure of what it was that even wanted to do anyway. And so, I started a blog. Somewhere around […]

March 21, 2014

Untimely Beginnings

January is the accepted time to talk beginnings and fresh starts. In January we talk about the new year and the big plans we make as a New Year’s Resolution obsessed culture. Even people who don’t participate tend to make noise about their non-participation. But spring is that too, and all the more so for […]

March 14, 2014

More words, less secrets.

I had this big plan to blog more often this year. This blog, specifically. I was going to give myself schedules. Right now, I should be posting Monday, Wednesday, Friday. When I have a lot to say, it’s easy. I draft the posts, fine-tune them, and they publish at 9am on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday. […]

March 10, 2014

The Weight of Blood: Review & Giveaway

A couple days after blogging about getting reacclimated to the sounds (or lack thereof) of falling asleep here in Missouri I received an ARC copy of The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh. This is book loosely based on an event from a town that is a not insignificant part of my mental landscape. I […]

March 5, 2014

What comes next?

Academic life has a lot of hard endings and beginnings. Finite markers. Here is where one thing ends and another begins. There’s something gratifying in that because you are given a definitive point at which to pause and process. “You have completed the thing,” says life. “Full stop. The thing is done and now you […]

March 3, 2014

sirens & sleep sounds

A few nights ago I heard sirens and I was struck by the strangeness of it. Mostly I was struck by the strangeness of it being strange. We live far away from anything. It’s a tiny city to begin with and we don’t even live within the boundaries of that city. It’s just shy of […]

February 26, 2014

A few details remembered.

In the summer of 2012 I got to spend a few weeks in Morocco as part of my graduate program. I wrote some posts about that. I made a short video on an NGO project with two of my classmates and attended a great deal of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. While I […]

February 19, 2014