Evolve or remain.

"Isn't that obvious?" a stranger just leaned in and asked me. I'm sitting in a Starbucks with my blog book open, and I'm guessing he had seen the title I'd written at the top of the page in bold letters.  " You are human above all else ." "It's easy to know," I told him. "We all know it. But I feel like it's easy to forget."  And then I grabbed my pens, closed the book, got up and left before he could question me again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I came up with this title several years ago, before I had even lived the stories that will now go along with it, and I've brought it up when people have asked me about what I intend to write next. I've always wondered when I'd actually be able to publish it.  If you know me, you know that it takes me years to publish some pieces. Most of my blogging is actually just me sitting here alone, writing br...

A lot has changed since 14 year old me sat down to blog for the first time ever. Everything, really. Almost every element of my life is different now than it was when I really started to discover how important it was for me to have a platform where I could speak my mind as freely as I wanted to. I've spent the last (almost) decade of my life sitting here just like I am now- buried in piles of pages covered in draft copies of the things I want to tell you and notes to myself about how I want to tell it all. Spending hours, weeks, months, and in some cases as much as years crafting these posts is something I can honestly say I've been doing for just about half of as long as I've been a part of this world. 14 year old me would be angry at the woman who's sitting here now, putting my to-do list to the side just so I can write. She would roll her eyes at me and tell me I'm wasting my time. She would remind me that I have other more important things to focus on, and...