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How All My Plans Fell Apart
Last August I hit a breaking point. Long story short, I had a plan for how this 22nd year of my life would go (grad school, graduating, getting a job, all the adult things) and in a matter of days it got totally derailed. My timeline was completely trashed and I felt 100% out of…
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An Open Letter To College Football
Dear College Football, For much of my life, I hated you. I didn’t understand you or care about you – not even a little bit. As a child and in my early teenage years, I spent Saturday after Saturday confused and annoyed about why we had to sit in the house and watch you for…
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Hindsight Is 20/20
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but a lot of the times when I feel like throwing some words on this computer screen, I’ll look back over old posts for a little inspiration. Not that I find myself particularly inspiring or notably wise, I just like to remember the things I’ve experienced and…
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Where’s the Good in the World?
If someone were to ask you right now whether there’s more good or more bad in the world, what would you say? I could see where you might jump to the easy answer: more bad, for sure. I don’t blame you. I have struggled to see the good in the world lately, too. In our…
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All These Plans Just Aren’t Working Out (and neither am I)
I have always been one of those people who loved the idea of exercising and then hated every minute of the actual exercise part. Put aside the fact that it’s “healthy” and “necessary” and all that… it’s really just hard and uncomfortable. Or at least, really hard and uncomfortable until you actually do it more than, I…
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I Think I’ve Peaked
Sometimes when I’m feeling especially nostalgic, I like to go back and read some of the blogs I’ve written over the past four years since I started this whole adventure. I like to look back and remember how I was feeling or what I was thinking in all these different times of my life. It’s…
Samantha Reynolds 