It was 12 hours before my flight when the first panic attack kicked into high gear. We'd been packing the whole day before. Strewn around the living room was everything that I held near and dear and two large suitcases. My mother and I were somehow able to cram every thing that I would need to move cross country inside of these monsters. And with every tick of the clock it was getting closer and closer to my departure. As a graduation gift from college one of my aunts had giv

Have you ever tried to dry a full load of laundry, in humidity, with no space in between each item? Because I have. Have you ever tried to find your way to a certain place with no map, place of reference, or common tongue? Because I have. We live in a world that is so heavily polluted with convenience that sometimes it is nearly impossible to see how helpless we would be without it. For every problem we can easily turn to Google, Siri, or our parents. There is no problem that

The summer after college I was a potato. I didn't want to do anything, I had absolutely no direction. Anything future facing was too scary. So I spent the first couple of months just laying around hoping that work and money would miraculously find me. The end goal was still New York, but in terms of getting there I really didn't know where to begin. It wasn't long until my all night Netflix binges wore down my mothers patience, and eventually she insisted that I get a job. Th

As a child I couldn't wait to grow up. I remember a time when I was counting the years until I would be a teenager. If only I were 13 I'd finally be grown up. Then it was 16, then 18, then 21. Each milestone appeared to me as an indicator of when I would finally have it all together. I wanted to make my own rules, have my own money, decide when I wanted to go to bed. (Take that curfew). I always felt like I was somehow older than I really was. When my parents got us a barbie