"…It's her journey to find the strength within herself and become the person, the example to others, that she really wished Maya had been for her." --Amazon.com Reader Review of And Then It Rained “I didn't bring the chicken.” My 20-year-old cousin Natalie, or my "big sister" as I often called her given our 5-year …
In My Blood
Help me, it's like the walls are caving in Sometimes I feel like giving up But I just can't It isn't in my blood" -Shawn Mendes "It's not good, Megan…" It was all my mom's teary voice could get out, but it was enough to put a rock in the pit of my stomach. "What …
Living Your Passion
Find something that makes you happy and fixate on it. That is the answer to all things. It's the answer to getting everything that you want." -Abraham Hicks What is your why? It's been months since I put that quote in my iPhone "Notebook" application reserved for blog post inspirations; so long, in fact, that …

A Flutter of Wings
It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world." -- Chaos Theory 11-2. I'm not sure why, but for some reason, this year seems to have been marked so far by a host of references back to the late nineties …

Traveling Through Life
The Universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, look around, to believe in something more, something else." -Unknown I sipped my Belgian wheat beer, or "Weiss" beer as I'd been trained to say during my six days in Germany just before, and savored the malty …