Something special that's been a constant for me since middle school is time spent with my family at hockey games in Wells Fargo Arena, watching the Iowa Wild and other AHL teams play. I've written about them several times on my blog, like here or here and even here, and I've yet to fulfill my goal of going to an NHL game, but I've alread[...]
There's nothing I enjoy more than roughing it in this world of luxury hotels, I thought, but did I have a choice this time? No, no I did not. Plus, Mom was so enthusiastic for us to hang out together at the campsite and walk its trails while the boys were hunting in areas nearby where we were camping, so I tried to put on a good show for[...]
The tagline for my blog for awhile used to always have some form of "fulfilling dreams" in it. That's probably still sprinkled throughout some of my copy around here, who knows. I'm okay with that because I do love addressing this topic and encouraging people to follow their dreams in line with following God. It's a good thing to have dr[...]
I wonder how long you've heard this idea and perhaps, more than likely, believed it yourself. That if you want something, as long as you put in the work, you'll get it. That everything in your future and life depends on you and what you do to make it happen. That if you want to change your life, you can go ahead and do it. That if you're[...]
My family took their annual trip up to Canada where they would be fishing for a whole week, and this city-loving-girly-girl took a pass on that last year and did so again this year. I did spend the two years before that going on the trip with them, and while I highly enjoyed the experience of seeing another country and the outdoors in tha[...]
I do not consider myself a professional website designer by any means, but ever since the creation of this blog I’ve had to learn how to do it. It’s a hobby and passion of mine I don’t talk about as much, save for the fact that I redesign this blog constantly and have lived to tell about it here. I have been thinking more about this[...]
I’m no psychologist (though I am taking advanced psych right now, which is everything I hoped it would be), but if I had to hypothesize about what distorts people’s minds the most in life, it’s disappointment and rejection. And by distortion, I mean the things that stay with you and have the potential to influence how you think[...]
I finished reading ten books over the span of a week. I had three nonfiction books I had been needing to read, and my OCD forced me to read them before I got busy on the seven books I bought—which was good, because I'd had them for awhile. I decided to spend as many days as it took just reading all of these. Not just for fun, though. Th[...]
Whenever I do a blog post specifically titled "An Honest Post," it's probably really personal to me. I mean, ALL of my blog posts are personal and honest; I make sure to keep them that way, but there are some topics that even I feel more hesitant to talk about, or I just need a disclaimer to be completely real and raw because some things[...]