Choose Your Own Adventure…

After the total heart-break-down of last week, I am choosing to move on and remembering that happiness is a choice we make, not something that happens to us. As a life-long, self-directed, intensely curious learner, I have often used the phrase “choose your own adventure” to describe how I think learning should happen, and even […]

How to Survive Heartbreak

This could have been a 3-word post: I. Don’t. Know. But in an effort to make sense of what I’m experiencing and move on, I need to try to process this… Does a heart really need to break to open? I never thought so, but then again, I never could even have imagined a broken […]

DWYSYWD

Even after taking graduate-level courses in leadership theory & teaching college leadership seminars (yes, I am a very big deal)…I truly think it all comes down to this: Do What You Say You Will Do. I’ve come to the conclusion that life, leadership, & love are all about being authentic, making commitments, and then following […]

“How to be Alone”

“…lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, and lonely is healing if you make it.” – Tanya Davis (Poet/Singer/Songwriter) A big part of this “someday file” project is re-learning to be alone, re-discovering the joy in quiet moments, having independent adventures, & channeling energy inward without relying on anyone else. A former student […]

Someday is…

…well, today, apparently. Here I was, driving & day-dreaming, when I came bumper-to-bumper with the swift kick in the ass I needed to stop imagining the life I want and start living it. So begins my someday file. I turn 29 this September & will have lost my dad to leukemia 15 years ago this […]