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“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.” ~ Helen Keller Teen Detective Extraordinaire Books literally feed my soul. They have since I was a child. The first person [...]
"I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself." ~ Abby Wambach It might seem like an oxymoron, for years I could have considered it my job, forcing myself to vomit eight, ten times a day. [...]
“In 2014 this stage was actually the first time that I was authentically, 100 percent honest with all of you. I think it’s safe to say that all of you know my life whether I like it or not. I had to stop because I had everything and I was absolutely broken inside. I [...]
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I have thought long and hard on what to say and what to write. Typing, then hitting the back space time and time again. I even wondered whether I should say anything at all. I wondered whether it would even [...]
“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.” ~ Diana Vreeland It is always important to spread the love and today I am doing so by posting about a few fashion Instagram accounts I absolutely adore! While many of my friends are addicted to Pinterest and find inspiration there. I always have been an Instagram [...]
"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something." ~ Morihei Ueshiba When I made the decision to move to New York in literally a month, from start to finish, My type A personality was freaking out. Coming from a small town, I had a lot of peoples opinions buzzing in my [...]
" 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude." ~ Gary Ross "He that loves reading has everything within his reach." ~ William Godwin As a kid I [...]
"I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect." ~ Andrew Young "I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to [...]
"Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical." ~ Derrick Jensen I have been writing since I was out of diapers. Chicken scratch with stick people turning into scribbles, finally turning into something, albeit briefly, legible. Ideas, journaling, leading to essays and novels. I write [...]
You have probably noticed, I start most of my posts with quotes. Quotes have a way of shaping my life, even my day. I have a chalk board in my apartment above my bed where I wrote my favorite most inspirational quotes on. Each morning when I wake up, I see them and it gives [...]