In just a few days, my second year of grad school begins! I've already been doing homework because I'm a nerd and proud of it and I'm ready for the new semester. For everyone ... Read the Post...
What To Pack for a Weekend Trip
I am so, so, so excited for the weekend because I'm going back to Nashville for the first time since I moved over 2 years ago! One of my friends from college is getting ... Read the Post...
Common Spoonie Conversational Issues + How To Respond
If you have a chronic illness and you talk about it with anyone - even just your immediate family or your partner - you have probably run up against some ... interesting ... ... Read the Post...
How To Take Notes in Class
We're at that time again, the time when half the nation has already started school and the other half is gearing up to. A new school year is just as great a reason to have ... Read the Post...
Why You Need a Social Media Content Calendar
Social media is a huge part of online presence, especially if you are a blogger or have an online business of some kind. Most people know this and have various accounts where ... Read the Post...
My Modern Preppy Style
For my entire life - no, I'm not exaggerating - my style has been classic and preppy. With today's fashion, my style is less shorts with animals stitched on them and more ... Read the Post...
Writing a Novel: My Creative Process
You may or may not know that I am a published author. I wrote my first novel when I was in high school and published it years later, and last year I wrote The Essential ... Read the Post...
Working for Your Dreams if You Have Health Issues
If you were to ask my family, ex-boyfriends, and friends what my worst quality is, they would probably say that I can be extremely stubborn. Now, I'm also self-aware enough ... Read the Post...
July Blog Traffic Report
It feels like my journey to 20,000 unique pageviews on Google Analytics has featured more struggle and frustration than not. There have been plenty of things that have been ... Read the Post...
July 2016 Favorites
I feel like I'm constantly talking about how shocked I am at how fast time in moving. I have this theory that it always feels that way because as you go on, each week/month ... Read the Post...
Why I Can’t Stop Journaling
Why I Can't Stop Journaling If I stopped carrying my journal everywhere with me, I would lose a quintessential part of myself. My friends can tell you that I always carry ... Read the Post...
Living with Arthritis: My Goals for a Positive and Happy Life
As I talked about last week, just because my arthritis has brought a lot of negative things to my life doesn't meant that it hasn't brought some positive changes, too. But ... Read the Post...
2016 So Far
You asked, so I'm delivering - the most common post request in the 2016 survey was for more of my personal life, so today I'm going to talk a bit more about my life, my year ... Read the Post...
How My Raging Autoimmune Disease Positively Changed My Life
As you probably know, I have rheumatoid arthritis. When I was diagnosed, I had 58 affected joints, and I've never gone below 52. What you may not know is that rheumatoid ... Read the Post...
What To Ask in a Reader Survey
A key part of writing for an audience is understanding what that audience wants to read about. I blog for me and I write about what I want to write about, but it doesn't ... Read the Post...