Settling in has always excited me. Settling into myself, the world, and the next step in my journey. The feeling you get when you have a confidence you don’t remember and an understanding you can’t explain. A willingness to step out from behind your parent’s protective shadow into the world where I’m-old-enough-to-call-on-my-own and to-take-responsibility and [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘family’
August 24, 2009
Awkward goodbyes…(looking back)
Looking back, this is the general outline of the conversations this morning with me communicating this is my last Sunday and people giving me puzzled looks.
Me: Hey, ________ (insert random person’s name) How are you doing?
Other person: Good, good…what are you doing this summer?
Me: Uh, well, I’m leaving this Thursday to work at Bighorn, then [...]
April 13, 2009
What do they think?
I opened my English book this morning with much trepidation because lately they have had this thing about making me write. I swear the people who created this curriculum sat around one day and thought up ways to make the last three booklets you do as time-consuming as possible. “First” they chuckled dryly, “We will [...]
January 25, 2009
Legendary Status Recipient…!
Guess what I did yesterday. All day, oh and the night before. No really, guess. I played the never-ending set list on Rockband 2. And if you don’t happen to know what that is (no, it’s not actually never-ending) it is a compilation of all the songs on the game going from easiest to hardest! [...]
May 14, 2008
Dear David,
You know those times when you feel that everything that usually doesn’t change is changing. When you feel everything slipping away from you, and there’s nothing you can do about it? Yeah, I’m having one of those times right now. You see, you just left for the airport and even though I’ll spend the whole [...]
