Summer of Nostalgia
On Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, and Nicholas Sparks
On Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, and Nicholas Sparks
Kyle and I did a thing yesterday. Three years ago this January, he and I were talking on one of our usual road trips from our Illinois hometown to our then home in Iowa, and we landed on the topic of tattoos. Our dating anniversary was around the corner so maybe we were feeling sentimental, but we decided one day…
This morning I picked up an essay collection that I’m about halfway finished reading. It’s my intention to read an essay collection every month this year as part of my studying for writing my own. I love the collection I’m reading now – Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at…
What questions do you come back to over and over? What “what-if” or past-life thoughts pull you from your present day? Almost every happy hour or date night, Kyle and I get going on two topics – where we want to live and making friends. The funny thing is, we live where we wanted to…
2018 was an exceptional year filled with lots of decision-making and adulthood things, but one thing that reminded me to live more playfully was my 18 Things in 2018 list. The idea of making such a list came to me last year from Gretchen Rubin and the Happier podcast. This would replace New Year’s resolutions in the…
With a week to go, this Christmas has already proven to be different from others. Not just because I’m gearing up for a 24-hour drive to the Midwest. Not because I don’t have a Christmas tree. Not because I haven’t baked one Christmas cookie. (Seriously, who have I become?) This Christmas feels especially different because I’ve…
Do you have something you try to go all out on for the holidays each year? What’s the thing you work yourself up about, dreaming for weeks about how epic it’s going to be, relentlessly pinning things to your Pinterest board and blowing your vision of it up into something unimaginable? The thing that you know…
What I love about writing articles for newspapers and magazines is connecting with people who have inspiring stories to share. I connected with Anni Welborne through an online writers’ group. Her daughter, Stacy, a 12-year-old who suffers from cerebral palsy, epilepsy and sensory processing disorder, was recently crowned the Indiana Miss Amazing Pre-Teen queen. A…