BeautyCounter Challenge
March 26th My face is allergic to basically everything under the sun. In the last two years, I’ve been acne-free for maybe a total of 10 days. My mom told me about BeautyCounter — a […]
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Delta Gamma Winter Formal
I’ve always loved wearing the golden anchor. The meaning behind the badge and love in the sisterhood is reason enough to want to crash any Delta Gamma event as an alumna. I was thrilled when […]
Bucket List
(This feature image is terrible. I designed it how high school Alyssa would have. Lol.) I made a bucket list that right after high school graduation… which a few days shy of FOUR YEARS ago. It’s embarrassing. Okay, […]
What is a Mom?
A mom lets you have your cake and eat it, too. … Then she cleans up the mess. A mom fills a home with love. (Puppies = Love) From day one, a mom puts her […]
Spring Cleaning
Shout out to my significant other. I’ve been extremely busy these last few weeks, and Jared has been more than understanding. Our house is a wreck. My laundry is in two big piles. I can’t […]
Fire Hazard
For the last four years I have stood in a circle, maybe 8 times, after a Monday night sorority chapter meeting, had the lights turned off when a small flame began to burn. This was […]
Buckets of Water
I want to focus on the positive. I want to surround myself with people who do the same. Recently, I don’t know if I have been doing that… and I know this pattern. It is […]
The Best Thing to Never Happen
As I flipped through the pages, and found myself nauseous with nostalgia of a time when I masked sincere emotions with blue eyeliner and avoided social contact behind the viewfinder of my DSLR camera, I […]
We are just as human as you.
It’s 8:40 a.m., and society has already offended a large group of women. Nothing new. However, it is not very often that I find myself wanting to respond to the hate in the world, because […]
What’s your plan, 2016?
Let’s not make New Year resolutions for 2016, OK? I am so tired of listening to people say, “2015 was not my year. I want to (insert resolution here) in 2016 and have the best […]
Take A Moment | Christmas 2015
When I first met Jared, I had absolutely no idea what kind of influence he would have on my life; let alone, what kind of influence his family would have. For the last 39 months […]
The Art of Online Birthdays
For those of you who who are either Gen X-ers or older, birthdays are a big deal on social media. No, not just Facebook. We (people younger than you) stopped using Facebook because it became […]