On a moonlit, starry fall night in Fayetteville, complete with a freezing mist, I couldn’t help but feel warm all over. We were exposed to the elements on a rooftop balcony to an apartment complex on campus. It was just the two of us and a blanket meant for one person. I felt absent from the rest of the world as I found an entirely … Continue reading Space Oddity
Sometimes someone comes into our lives to let us know what we’ve been missing. Throughout my adventure in the written word, reflection has been my most common genre in my portfolio. One could suspect that I would know myself well by reading any post on here or any poem in my poetry book, and normally I would agree with anyone who believed that sentiment, but … Continue reading Reminded How to Feel
Smitten has become one of my newest favorite words due to how relevant it has become to me. Words escape me in regards to my feelings for the first time ever. I have never had a problem expressing my emotions either verbally or through the written word, but in this recent period of me being completely and utterly smitten, I have not been successful in … Continue reading Smitten
I started writing down all the memories from my adolescence that have forged who I am as a person in a notebook. The more the list grew, the more I realized that nearly all of them had been revisited, tampered with, and included into the monstrosity that is my incomplete novel. At that moment, I understood the impact of this book. Whether it impacts readers … Continue reading Labor of Love
Recounts, Reflections, and Other Writings 