journal

  • Abroad

    It was my mom’s birthday, the 31st of July, in the year 2000. I got on a plane and arrived on the other side of the globe, in the Netherlands. This is where I would spend my next year. I had graduated from high school in June and this was…

  • My Pace

    In the span of 5 minutes yesterday, I came across 2 social media posts that both had the message of ‘don’t give up.’ The first one caught my attention, which does mean, that the message applies to me in some way. So then seeing one immediately after did make me…

  • Month 4!

    I was scrolling back through some of my posts and remembered that I had written earlier in the year an update at the Week 4 mark, and now, it’s month 4! Already. The year is flying by and we are well into April. And as always, it feels like there…

  • Anxious

    When I was 13, I was in grade 8 and we had to take ‘Drama’ class at school. I hated it. I hated talking in front of people, I hated a group of people looking at me, I hated attention directed at me. And I think when something makes us…

  • Blogiversary!

    I had a notification that this is my 5 year Blogiversary! Its hard to believe it’s been 5 years since I started the blog – which was really just a means to begin a website – when I didn’t have much website content. It was a way to get started…