a collection of stories and thoughts from a 20-something
It's Wednesday morning and I'm drinking tea with honey at my local cafe to replace the usual cafe con leche, as I think my weekend adventure in Paris took a lot from me in more ways than one. I'm home (away from home) now, taking it slow before I take off for London in the… Continue reading travel journal II: accepting life in a foreign place
let's talk about it. I spent my whole life being scared to fail, and then I actually failed, really really badly. I sometimes wonder if it was because of this fear that I let it happen, so that it was no longer an unknown I had to fear. I crippled myself and didn't have the… Continue reading a commentary on failure
I've officially been in Spain longer than the time I have left. A month and ten days feels both long and short at the same time, if that's possible. Right now, it's feeling extremely long. This was supposed to be an airy piece about my time here so far but right now, it feels heavy… Continue reading travel journal I: the harder parts of study abroad
This past May, I went to Guatemala and stayed there for a month. While I could write a book, I'm going to try my best to summarize the best parts. I went to Guatemala through my school's missions program. A little rundown of how the process works: I applied to go on a trip in… Continue reading guatemala & what it taught me about community
i have a tattoo on my inner right ankle. i've had it for a little over a year now, and to this day it sometimes means more to me than it did on the day i went to the tattoo shop. back then, it may have looked reckless or emotional to get something permanently marked… Continue reading my story
I chase things. I never feel like my present is enough. I get caught in my daydreams and long for greater things. I imagine a life of adventure, risk taking, loving, and learning about myself and the world around me. But I’m in college. For the time being, I'm relatively stuck. So I go downtown,… Continue reading being a chaser: the heart of someone who constantly longs for things beyond