I woke up this morning completely fine. I laid in bed and thought about some weird dreams I had last night, but mentally I was fine. I picked up my phone, opened Facebook and started to go to “on this day,” and just like that, I wasn’t so fine. I had been a little surprised ...
Today I was going to finish all the characters to my book, and I needed to get out of my apartment. So, I threw on a pair of jeans, an old Rolling Stones tee-shirt, my black chucks, grabbed my laptop, and headed to my favorite coffee shop in town. Parking was crazy, but that isn’t ...
How did you end up there, you may ask? How exactly did I end up sitting at a table in what used to be my sweet little bakery? The little 1000 square feet where I poured every inch of my soul. The little 1000 square feet that I have avoided for three years. The little ...
My day usually starts with good intentions, and then something shiny crosses my path, and I’m distracted in a flash. Monday of this week, while at Orange Theory Fitness, I felt something “snap” in my hipish area. I just ignored it and crushed the rest of the class, but by the time the short ...
My little blog is soon to be celebrating its third birthday, and I took a minute to look back at all my posts. Way back to the very first post on September 2, 2014, titled “Day 2 of Unemployment and Self Realization”. I went back and read the post, it wasn’t very good, but it ...
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