• Things I Understand Now

    Things I Understand Now

    I didn’t learn the most important things in moments when everything was going well. I learned them when things felt unclear, when people left, and when I had too much time alone with my thoughts. Those quiet, uncomfortable moments changed me in ways success never could. One thing I understand now is that not everyone…

  • Sour

    Sour

    sour, the sight of your cries, heart wrenching  but my sweet words to coux you ain’t enough,  your doe-like eyes  tear up my heart,  like fine tea reaping in the vines,  your beauty catches every eye, your lies are like a tickle on my heart, as your sweet lips part  memories of the scars you…

  • Birthdays & Winter Ramblings

    Birthdays & Winter Ramblings

    Birthdays are only celebrated once a year, and my birthday is on January 22nd, which means there is a slight chance each year that it might snow on or near my birthday. When I was a kid, I loved it when it snowed on my birthday because that meant school would be closed or we…

  • The Age Of Social Media

    The Age Of Social Media

    I have such a love/hate relationship with all social media. While I can appreciate that it led my sister to find me and gave us the ability to form a strong friendship, or how the high school friends can so easily stay connected, and how the long-distance family can stay in touch a bit easier…

  • Note By The Window

    Note By The Window

    Two letters under the covers. I recover as I stare at the innocent self-satisfied writings under my bed, I count inside my head three to five years totally wasted,  two years left, i tilt my head,  looking at my reflection ahead, you heard he was never gonna be enough  yet you stayed, you heard that…

  • Sealed Heart

    Sealed Heart

    Behind these doors My heart is sealed, My thoughts are seen My love locked I’m the only one who knows Secrets like these are never known Behind closed doors My tears flow like rivers, Tears meant to be seen I cry for hearts unknown I cry for what I’ve lost Yet they don’t cry back.…

  • My First Christmas!

    My First Christmas!

    There are moments in life that arrive quietly, yet change us forever. My first Christmas is one of those moments—bright, unexpected, and filled with a kind of warmth I didn’t know I needed. Growing up, Christmas was always something that belonged to other people. I saw it through windows, through stories, through the excitement of…

  • A Kiss At Midnight

    A Kiss At Midnight

    It was New Year’s Eve, and Charlotte was excited to attend her best friend, Lila’s, New Year’s Eve Party this year because she was hoping that Levi, the guy she had been crushing on for the past two years, would finally kiss her. Charlotte had his name written all over the notebooks she used at…

  • Predicted Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions

    Predicted Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions

    With the start of the new year, generally comes the start of a new you. Every year, billions of people see in this time of year by setting themselves a resolution for the new year. Whether all those people stick to the new goals they have made is a different matter. Yet they start them…

  • Sequel

    Sequel

    I told you my pain, and you reenacted it perfectly It is as if I wrote you a script on how to tear me apart You sat and listened day after day, word after word, and you sat and memorized it Like you were memorizing a script As if my pain was a movie, you…

  • How I Had A Budget-Friendly Wedding

    How I Had A Budget-Friendly Wedding

    Image Source: Unsplash- Beatriz Pérez Moya I got married on November 1st, and going into it, my husband Ian and I knew that we wanted to spend as little money as possible on our wedding. Since we were having our wedding in a small conference room, we knew ahead of time that our guest list…

  • There Is Still Time

    There Is Still Time

    Image Source: Unsplash- Artem Beliaikin Life does not end at 20. Nor does it end at 30. It certainly does not end at 40. There is still time. Time to achieve your dreams. Time to experience all that your heart yearns. Time to change. There is still time. Let it be the quiet reminder that…