Grow Wild & Free

On Saturday, I celebrated my 20th birthday: The end of the teenage years, the start of a new decade, and the beginning of a quarter-life...

One year ago, on exactly this day I had a near panic attack before I walked up to the stage I would be graduating on. As they lined us up...

Last year, one of the biggest factors in my gradual spiral out was the never-ending, panic-inducing college application process. Nothing...

Recently I have had a question in my mind. Maybe not so much a question, but rather a single, revealing word poccessing the ability to...

I wonder how I look through the eyes of a stranger. Sitting here writing. I wonder what they see-- and all they don't. Can they see my...

So begin with your dream. Begin now, as you are, merely and magnificently a dreamer. You with starry eyes, begin and don't stop.

I would rather love, I would rather live, than not at all.

Time for a little honesty... the other evening I was feeling a little bit more lost than usual. Maybe you know that feeling- lonely but...

Everything in life is there to teach us a lesson: rejection, loss, love, pain, failure, success. Even a missed alarm or a series of red...

It is often said that a person is never truly lost. And though this is a lovely and comfortable sentiment, I have to argue that we are-...

Recently, as any sane human would do, I have been caught in a series of existential crises. Everything is fine, everything is...