Guess what I did!?!?! I got my nose pierced and boy, was I excited! Most people probably wouldn’t have been nearly as excited and happy as I was, but this was SO much more than just a piercing. You see, since I turned 21, I told myself that things needed to be different… Which is…

She said to, “keep writing,” but I am finding it hard to express how I feel through words when I feel like I have lost who I am.  Sitting here on my couch, I ponder life and everything I have been through. A part of me smiles at remembering the joy, and a part of…

I smiled today and meant it. It didn’t feel forced or fake. It was real. I smiled today in realization that I made a decision for myself and no one else. A decision that will close this chapter in my life, but also open new doors. Oh, so bittersweet. When God is calling you to…

The youngest of the kids I watch, looked at me with her big green eyes and missing front teeth, and asked me to cut an apple for her. She handed me the apple and I looked at it. I couldn’t remember which way to cut it to make the core of it into the shape…