Puns and Garbanzo Beans

Let's be honest here- families are weird. Between the family you know you have but have never met and all the family drama, sometimes it's hard to keep up. Not every family is the same, but each family has a standard set of "characters." You have the fun uncle, the little kid who definitely ate …

Master Sergeant

Everyone who's ever spent time in the same room with my father and me tends to have the same reaction by the time they leave. From our mannerisms and speech patterns to our love of peanut butter and oatmeal cookies the two of us are very similar. After another week of life's curve-balls I've decided that …

Where did the week go?

Life gets pretty crazy, and sometimes you forget what day of the week it is. Today was one of those days. This week's Thankful Thursday post will pop up on Friday!  Stay tuned! 

Drive on

Patience is a weird concept when it comes to my practice of it. For the most part, I'm very patient with other people. When it comes to myself though, all bets are off. I expect things to click the first time I learn it, I plan for things to happen by a certain point in …

Thankful Thursday

Let's be completely honest here- sometimes life really sucks. There's no other way to put it. We've all been in some pretty awful situations or had days, even weeks, where everything that could have gone wrong did. Plain and simple, sometimes life throws you some particularly difficult curve balls. I was raised a Catholic and …

This old soul’s new world

I've always been ahead kind of person. I've had a plan for how I wanted my life to go for years: graduate high school, go to one school for college, land some internships, get good grades, get a job in my field, graduate, and start my adult life journey. Here I am 25 days post …