Category: Note To Self

Today is the first day of fall! I don't know about you, but this time of year always makes me think deeply about new seasons. I love the fresh start feeling fall brings. I always have. Don't you remember the way the first day of school felt like a chance to be whoever you wanted [...]

Once there was this job I thought was surely mine. I hadn’t even graduated college yet and I really wanted it (I thought I did anyways), but that job was not mine. It was my first big rejection and it wasn’t fun. When I didn’t land that job I was embarrassed and even a little [...]

The other day on instagram I shared that birthdays always feel bittersweet to me. I wrote about my 24th birthday and the way I cried sad tears about getting older because I was overwhelmed with the sense that time is running out for me. I recognize that 24 is pretty young and so is 26, [...]

A couple years ago, Jordan and I started new jobs, moved to a new city, and started fresh in almost every way. We had led very busy, full lives up to that point and that year was a time of forced rest and intention as individuals and in our marriage like we’d never had. It [...]

FEARLESS! That was going to be my word for 2019! I chose it prayerfully and purposefully. I chose it hoping God would align events and opportunities in my life throughout the next year that would allow me the chance to exercise this declaration and grow to really claim the identity of a woman who laughs [...]