// via //. ...another year gone. I realize with each passing year, I sound more and more like a blue-haired, AARP card-toting member of a Buick-driving, prune-juice sipping demographic (disclaimer: none of that is intended to sound disrespectful, I love older people so very much)... but I can't help it. I am genuinely dumbfounded that each passing year speeds by, quicker and quicker...

// twinkling. // Just checking in to say I hope you've had such a wonderful Christmas, wherever you are, whomever you're surrounded by. My parents jetted in to Nashville on Tuesday (!!!)--I knew I'd love having them here. Sure enough, we've had such a wonderful few days together... and tomorrow we're playing up the tourist scene and heading to mosey through some museums I haven't even ventured...

ringing in 28. I turned 29 two weeks ago today. In anticipation of the milestone, I'd been really pondering what--if anything--I've learned about life up until this point. Typically, authority comes with age, right?... but I don't really feel that I've earned a lot of clout just yet. I mean, I've lived a lot of life, I've loved a lot and lost a lot... but 29 used to sound so old. I'm...

   My ten-year high school reunion was a few weeks ago. ten years. TEN. just hold me for a minute. since I was your trusty class secretary, I was tasked with the tag-teaming of planning the reunion... and I'm a little embarrassed to admit that in the weeks leading up to the event, I complained about allocating one of my precious Texas trips for the purpose of the reunion. I have had...

  I've lived a little bit of life. I've had some hurt. A lot of hurt, it feels like sometimes. I firmly believe that every individual's life is a collaboration of those few mandated chapters--grade school, college, marriage for some, death for all--and those handful of hit-you-hard life events that completely shape you as a human being whether you ask for it or not. For some people, those overlap....