Let’s get in our time machine and travel back to our school days when your teacher would give you an assignment where you had to be creative. Did you find yourself excited and giddy or did your palms automatically start sweating as your heart raced? So, let me ask you, do you consider yourself to […]

At last, it’s here, right in front of you, the life you want, but you start to feel a pit in your stomach. What could it be? Fear. Doubt. Your head starts to fill with noise, am I good enough? Can I truly do this? What will my friends and family think or say? I’m […]

Take a moment and think about how many different people you talk to on a daily basis. Face to face, a phone call from Boston to Arizona, a quick text message, sign language, an email and maybe even kicking it old school with a card in the mail. Communication is performed by every type of […]

As I sit here in joyful solitude on the couch, legs crossed up on the coffee table and my laptop placed accordingly on my lap. I can’t help but reflect on a time in my life that I sat on the couch in solitude. The sense of loneliness and unworthiness seemed to be an endless […]

“Let’s go on an epic road trip revisiting our childhoods,” we said to each other across the dinner table. When James had told me how he spent his summers on the lakes of Vermont with his grandmother, I knew he would get me. For more than a decade, my summers were spent running around in […]

It’s about 3 am on a Saturday and the young girl hears the sounds of footsteps above her head in the distant corner of the house. Her mom will be coming downstairs any minute telling her to go to bed. “It’s 3 am and everyone is trying to sleep” she could imagine hearing her mother […]

The birds start chirping while the sun starts to peak out over the trees and shine through your window. You know it’s almost time to get up out of your cozy, warm bed, oh how you wished you had just 5 minutes longer. The alarm screams through the house and while tempted to hit snooze […]

You pull in the parking lot, send a text “I’m here”, look around aimlessly to get a quick glimpse of them standing outside or wondering which car they will come out of. Bing, a message appears on your phone “I’m here too where are you?”. Ok, you’re about to do this, you look for probably […]

While sitting at a local diner, he took a bite into his omelet as I enthusiastically discussed taking a trip to Arizona. I painted the pictures of the picturesque red stone mountains, the evergreen trees, and rolling desserts. He entertained my excitement and said “we’ll see” and continued to finish his breakfast. A couple of […]

This chic rustic style “Keys to Success” idea can double as your graduation party guestbook and is an easy afternoon project! Materials Needed 1 Small or Medium Box Tags for guests to write their “keys To Success” Keys (Based on your preference you can purchase small keys to glue on the card or larger ones […]