Christmas Tree Hunting with the Family!
It’s that time of year again, I can hardly believe it! Didn’t we just eat Turkey this weekend? Anyways, our family made it up to “Christensen Christmas Trees” where we found two beautiful trees! Here...
View ArticleDaily Prompt: Tattoo....You?
Reblogged from The Daily Post: Do you have a tattoo? If so, what’s the story behind your ink? If you don’t have a tattoo, what might you consider getting emblazoned on you skin? Photographers,...
View ArticleThanksgiving Weekend Memories
This Thanksgiving and “Wilcox Wednesday” (aka Wednesday Thanksgiving) did not fail to turn out the memories. Sometimes it’s best to just listen, and you truly realize how crazy, funny, and weird your...
View ArticleI wanna be a baller
My journey though making cake pops (we call them cake balls) turned out to be an adventure. I bought a contraption guaranteeing perfect balls of cake, but you know what they say about perfection,...
View ArticleFinals Week
This week is finals, and with all the crazy stuff happening at OSU, many of us were hoping and wishing that finals would be canceled. HA! The facebook page for “THings Overheard at OSU” blew up with...
View ArticleHow I Lost My Sanity (or what’s left) Over 48 Jars, and Didn’t Regret It
You’ve all seen Pinterest crafts that use an unholy amount of mason jars, well read along to see how I attempted to let my ambition guide the way as I was given 48 jars (not mason) to repurpose into...
View ArticleLoyal Tea
Ahhh…there is nothing quite like a cup of freshly brewed hot tea. My obsession grows daily. No wonder tea has been used for remedies, in worship traditions, and medicine for ages. Tea is both good for...
View ArticleThe Power of Confidence
We all have those days we struggle with confidence, but for some people being confident just seems to be a way of life. When I think of a confident person I think of icons like Beyonce, Amy Poehler,...
View ArticleCatharsis
Catharsis is “the purging of emotion” as defined by Aristotle. A cathartic event in Greek Theatre was usually at the end of a tragic play, when the events came to a close and the audience would...
View ArticleBack In The Groove
“So when life gets you down what do you gotta do? Just keep swimming, just keep swimming!” This quote from Pixar’s Finding Nemo, is such a simple reminder of the idea of persistence. More than that,...
View ArticleWhat Did You Learn?
From every relationship, every opportunity, every “failure” we can learn something. Self-discovery is just the beginning to a life long romance with yourself. Sometimes we have the stubbornness to...
View ArticleAm I My Mother?
Ahh! The dreaded realization that every woman goes though, when you say something or do something that is exactly synonymous to something that your mother would do to you as a kid. The famous, “Just...
View ArticleYour 20s-Not the Sitcom You Imagined
Growing up I watching the ever poplar T.V. series F.R.I.E.N.D.S, I imagined that my life in my 20s would yield a similar outcome. I would have a group of attractive male and female friends, we would...
View ArticleWorking Hard or Hardly Working
Lately I have been involved Stage Managing a show at my University’s Theatre Department. It is a labor of love. All the positions at our school (acting, tech, backstage) is entirely volunteer. You can...
View ArticleAn ode to my crappy apartment and how I love it:
Home is a place where the boots come off, The hair goes down, I can look ugly and love it.Home is a place where the tea kettle never runs dry, where I star in my own Martha inspired cooking show,my...
View ArticleMasks
“This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners! When I see a spade I call it a spade. “ - Cecily Cardew (Importance of Being Ernest) As we go throughout the day an interesting phenomena...
View ArticleRound and Round We Go
“Let’s go. Yes, Let’s go.” - Waiting for Godot Life has a way of becoming cyclical. You think you are making progress, but you end up turned back around to the same problems you thought you...
View ArticleStubborn Not Ignorant
Ever been likened to a donkey? Not in THAT way…but meaning that you are stubborn and unyielding. Either way, being likened to smelly animal that resembles an ugly horse is not the ego boosting...
View ArticleThinking You Think Too Much?
Analyzing is just part of who I am, part of my chemical make-up. I was born a natural worrier and planner and with that comes excessive thinking, nitpicking, and anxiety. I am the type that finds...
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