From a young age, we are bombarded with the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The older we get, the more mature and serious the question becomes. “What do you want to do with your life?” people begin to ask. As we navigate our emergence from adolescence, we are simultaneously […]
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Life with two corgis
I am diverging from my usual blog post style of insightful rambling to share a bit of a life update. If you follow me on social media, you probably know that my boyfriend, Nick, and I just brought home our second corgi baby, Fiona. Over the past couple of weeks we have received SO many […]
On friendship, and why it’s okay to walk away
As a true introvert, making friends is and always has been hard for me. From an early age, I have dealt with what I now know is social anxiety, but for many years I figured was just my own awkwardness. The first time I can remember noticing this feeling was around age 9. That year, […]
Coming home
It was a sunny March day. The winter chill still hung in the air, but the first smells of spring were starting to peak out. Colors had begun to perk back up after a winter of brown and grey. It was a familiar feeling. That first step on the pavement. The wind at my back, […]
Let their hearts be soft
We have for so long lived with the widely accepted idea that in order to survive in this cruel, unfair world, we must work to harden ourselves. That in order to persevere through the pain we will inevitably feel, we must find ways to build up our own armor, our own self-constructed shields. That we […]
Manifesting confidence
T O B E C O M E M O R E C O N F I D A N T I N S P E A K I NG M Y M I N D If I had to choose my most important goal for 2018, that is it. Like most introverts, I often […]
2017: year of growth
2017 has been, simultaneously, one of the best and worst years of my life. I have not had many words this year to describe all of my many feelings. While I have continued to write and share, there are so many more thoughts bottled up, compiling in my head, that I cannot seem to get […]
Finding the light
Each time she fell back into that hole, it seemed to get just a little bit darker. Each time, feeling as though more and more of herself was being taken away. And just as she learned how to fight off the debilitating darkness, just as she began to see the light again, the darkness would […]
It’s time to draw the line
Something has to change. We are all tired of hearing story after story of sexual harassment and misconduct. Tired of the pain we know too many have felt. Tired of the cyclical conversations that never seem to move us even an inch forward. Tired of knowing a neighbor, a friend, a sister or daughter that […]
Found
You are not lost, my dear. You are simply seeking your next adventure. Don’t let this world convince you otherwise. You were not made to know of everything you are or of everything you’re meant to do or of everywhere you’re meant to go. Instead, this life is a journey of discovery, and when the […]
Evan Petschke 