Flora is a free, habit-tracking and focus app that helps you stay on track with work and study. I also use it for reading and writing when I know I want to spend a certain amount of time doing these and other tasks. You set your timer, pick a tree and/or plant, put down your… Continue reading Flora ~ Habit-tracking App
My School Experience with the Pandemic and Some Tips from a Former Homeschooler
So, for one of my classes I had to write a thousand words on anything. I was thinking, why not make it into a blog post type of thing. I know, weird intro, I just really wanted to use it. I’ll be honest, I both love and hate what is happening because of the pandemic. I dislike paying… Continue reading My School Experience with the Pandemic and Some Tips from a Former Homeschooler
My Issues With The World Right Now
I will not lie and say that I am always calm and level headed when it comes to potential life or death situations like the pandemic which is infecting a fast growing number of the population and can kill anyone, including the young and healthy, as the recent analysis of Italy's death numbers show, but… Continue reading My Issues With The World Right Now
Maybe
Maybe it was the occasional glint in her eyes, like she knew what she was doing. Maybe it was simply the way her hair shined in the light; how it always looked perfect. Maybe it was the soft, sumptuous curves of her body. Maybe it was the perfect smallness of her being. Maybe it was… Continue reading Maybe
Bang
I thought it would be hard. Perhaps it was, perhaps it was the hardest decision of my life, but in that moment it was easy. I wasn’t nervous, wasn’t scared, wasn’t upset. For what felt like the first time I was happy: at peace. It was probably painful. I think it was why everything… Continue reading Bang
Too Young to Realize
I was young. Too young to realize what was really happening. Too young to realize this was love. Too young to realize it was one sided. Too young to realize I was being used. I remember the way my heart started to pound, a wide smile filled with teeth gracing my face when she… Continue reading Too Young to Realize
Things People Need to Realize about Mental Illness
It isn’t just us being lazy. It isn’t being tired or weak willed or grumpy. It isn’t us just not wanting to try or change. They are called mental illnesses for a reason. It is being so weak and tired and powerless that simply breathing takes all of your energy. It is never being… Continue reading Things People Need to Realize about Mental Illness
Ages
5 There is no fear Friends surround you Everything is an adventure 10 You notice things you didn’t before Girls are pretty Boys are handsome Not everyone is a friend anymore 12 People look different You look different Fitting in has become a things that needs to happen 14 Kids can be… Continue reading Ages
Weird Ways to deal with a Loved One in the Hospital
The first thing you should know it that I am incredibly close with my grandfather. We go out to eat together, have shows we watch together, sit in companionable silence, and he edits anything I write that he sees, including these blog posts. I am always happy with it though because there are only ever… Continue reading Weird Ways to deal with a Loved One in the Hospital
Top Three Tips for Opening Up about Your Problems
I have a hard time opening up to people. I have a hard time being honest about my deeper feelings, even in regards to myself. I am only just starting to really admit certain things to myself and the people who need to know so I can start figuring it all out. Everyone has things… Continue reading Top Three Tips for Opening Up about Your Problems