My Response to Being Slightly Bullied I don’t remember a time after 8th grade until recently when I showed my true self to the world, and that was decades ago. Eighth grade is when it all got too big for me, and I needed to make a move or crumble beneath the weight of negative…
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Reasons for Writing
Even though I’m not getting paid I was about seven years old when I started writing. Poems were floating around in my head, and one day I realized that I could put them on paper. For a long time, all I wrote was poetry and song lyrics. I have storage boxes level full of work…
A Thousand Things
That’s what I keep trying to do. A thousand and one, maybe. I’ve been doing it all my life and if I know me, I’m not gonna stop any time soon. I’m gifted, and I know it. I’ve always known it. God’s given me a little bit of a whole lot of different talents. Not…
When You Can’t Find Your Motivation (and How I Don’t Have the Answers)
I absolutely get discouraged. Looking back over this journey we’ve taken over the last year, it would be easy to overlook all of our accomplishments and just focus on the failures. Today has been one of those days when it has been hard to stay on the positive side of things. Yep, it’s more than…
Go Buy Yourself a Shovel
So much pressure. This world comes full of it. Pressure to conform, pressure to excel, pressure to be different. Trying to wade through all of that can be overwhelming to say the least, especially when your life seems to depend on it. At least your financial life. What I’ve learned since I started writing is…
Rob’s House
Last night I finished this painting. Have you ever done something that you weren’t sure you could do, but ended up really proud because you accomplished it? That’s what this is for me. I’m a color artist. What I mean is, I see life—and things—in bits of color. That’s how I paint. That’s why I…
Why Other People Don’t Support You
So you finally did it! It took you all your life to start pursuing your dream with everything you’ve got, and naturally you thought the whole world would applaud your efforts from the sidelines–even go as far as to run beside you and help you along the way! Then you turn around to see, and…
Pink Hair and Pajama Bottoms 