Blooming through experience. Memories through adventure.
2020 has been a year like no other. I never thought that right when I was starting to spend more time with friends and family that I would then have to social distance from everyone, but here we are. I'm an introvert, so staying alone in my apartment for weeks on end isn't as bad [...]
In 2019, my goal was to read 50 books. I kept on track until the end of the year when I had some personal stuff happen, but I still managed to read a total of 42 books. I was stressed at first about not making my goal but my therapist reminded me that reading is [...]
We only have 25% of 2019 left, which is INSANE to me! Holy how?? In three months, we will be in a new decade.. At the beginning of the year, I decided to split my "New Years Resolutions" into "quarters" or chunks of four so that they're easier to manage and to keep me accountable. [...]
At the beginning of the year, I made some overall goals for 2019. Instead of doing "New Years Resolutions", though, I decided to set quarterly goals to keep myself more accountable. These quarterly goals were more achievable things I aimed to accomplish in three months, which made me more likely to get them done. I'm [...]
One of the things I'm most thankful for this year is the gift of reading. I fell in love with reading again after being apart from it for so long, and it's been amazing. I've read some great books this year, and I can't wait to see what amazing things I'm able to read in [...]
Usually at the end of every semester, I write out a list of things I learned during the course of the last few months. This semester is different, though. I've been in school for two and a half years now and I've never encountered a semester as difficult as this one. My first semester was [...]
Growing up, I never read or watched Harry Potter. Some of my friends around me loved it and talked about it, but my family wasn't a huge fan of it so I never had much of an interest in reading the series. My middle school self just stuck with the Hunger Games. The summer after [...]
