Author Archives: Stan

From “Lord of the Butterflies”: “You’re going to look at all of your options and choose conviction. Choose to carve your own heart out of the side of a cliff. You highway streak of light falling over and over for your hard life.” –Your Life by Andrea Gibson Hello! I hope you had a goodContinue reading “Highway Streak of Light”

love /ləv/ 1. “anyone who sees what’s missing, but can’t stop pointing to what’s still there.” -Andrea Gibson I hope you’re all doing well. Fall is coming, and I am so happy. I’m sitting on my couch on a beautiful Friday morning, windows open and crisp morning air seeping into my lungs. With some positivityContinue reading “Self-Care 101”

“Becoming is better than being.” -Kalyn Nicholson Wow. The past few weeks have been a mess, at least for me they have. A lot of things have changed, some of which I think for the better. I was watching a YouTube video the other day and there was this quote in the beginning, “we couldContinue reading “Jack and Sally”

“Pack yourself a toothbrush dearPack yourself a favorite blouseTake a withdrawal slipTake all of your savings out‘Cause if we don’t leave this townWe might never make it outI was not born to drownBaby come on” –Sleep on the Floor by The Lumineers Hello again! It’s been a while I suppose. To be honest I haven’tContinue reading “Let’s Leave This Town Together”

I want to take a second to talk about the sunset, how it’s beauty bends in waves with the sky, bringing a new beginning for the moon and the stars that make up the very universe we are a part of, the constellations weaving the different parts together into the blanket of the milky wayContinue reading “a thank you letter to my body”

There are so many emotions that have gone through my head this week as events keep unfolding across the nation. Protests against police brutality have swept across the nation and with it a wave of social media outbreak, both of which are hoping to make the change that is long overdue. I’ve wanted to sayContinue reading “I Stand With You”

“I crashed down from a high that felt so realI never knew how much it would hurt to feelYou gotta hurt sometimes to learn to healYou gotta get back up and learn to deal, yeah” -“Some Kind of Disaster” by All Time Low Today my therapist asked me whether or not I thought I hadContinue reading “Happiness: A Saga”

“I would’ve told her that [we] never talked much, or even looked at eachother, but it didn’t matter, because we were looking at the same sky together. Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.” –Turtles All The Way Down by John Green This weekContinue reading “Perspective”

“You are worth so much more than sent emails and crossed off to-do lists. You should find victory in the small things: the folded laundry, the clean plate, the answered phone call, the brushed teeth. You used to say you were ‘sorry’ every other sentence.” —Guilt Doesn’t Live Here by Blythe Baird— The past 3Continue reading “Moving Forward”

I live for the nights after 10 hour shifts with a slap happy Hannah and me singing and laughing very loudly. With the only light coming from an iPhone flashlight and the blue light from my laptop screen illuminating my face. The echoes of our laughter illuminating the smiles on our faces. I live forContinue reading “Reasons I Live”