“You can be the ripest, juiciest, peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”
– Dita von Teese

As a people pleaser, this quote struck and moved me when I first read it some years ago. I spent so much of my time catering myself to what other people would like, being careful of how I spoke or what I said or…read more

When I was entering my senior year of college, I settled on my dream career field of a pathologists’ assistant. It was niche, and extremely competitive to get into a program. I had a plan as of 2021 to get into a program and begin my graduate schooling. I had to delay this plan by a year when I had to take prerequisites I was not able to take…read more

You sit on the couch with a lamp on
Writing a poem
Bananas on the coffee table
Are ripening.

You’re creative
Unique
Expressing yourself authentically
Resolute
You observe carefully
Sensing the world around you
You contain depth and wisdom
A counter to a mainstream thought process
Seeing details and complexities
You feel everything deeply
You…read more