Quizzy Adult-in-Training

It’s almost funny to me how friendships happen. When you first meet someone it seems to be a trivial event, an occurrence of everyday. It is only down the line that you realize how monumental those minutes of conversation were in the long run. Honestly I couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment all of us became a family or, even the exact moment I met each of them. What I can say for certain though is we are closer than any friendship I’ve ever encountered. I’ve never met a group of people so different from each other but so accepting of the unique personalities and beliefs we each hold. While I can’t remember the moments of introduction to each of my friends I do remember vividly the memories in which I realized that we were connected. When I say connected I mean we all shared one thing in common, Emaleigh. A couple of weeks ago I was discussing with Maria the what-ifs of our situation. What would have happened if Emaleigh hadn’t died, would we still be as close? Would we have slowly r...

Just to let you all know I’m being extra cliché right now. I’m sitting outside of my regular Starbucks listening to Etta James and writing my February blog post. Honestly Etta is probably the best kind of artist to be listening to while I write this because honey knows about love. Yes people I am continuing on my path of the clichéd writer because during the month of February I will be writing about love. You all know that’s my favorite subject anyways so I don’t know why you guys would have expected anything different. I’d like to say my scenery is as equally romantic as the scene I’m about to set up for you but, alas I’m across the street form the ABC Liquor store that is caddy corner to the Shell Station…not exactly the French Riviera I know but, hey I’m working with what I’ve got.             So love, you people have got some messed up ideas of that word let me tell you. This blog post is called my ideal man. It’s not because...

            We all know what the New Year brings. Resolutions, and with resolutions come gym memberships that cease to be useful for more then a few months, vows to create lasting romantic relationships are thrown away after one too many shots of Fireball, and a long retrospective look into one’s self. The last of which is probably the only thing that is actually followed through into another year. Self-examination is something that people do on the daily. I don’t think there’s one day that goes by that I don’t think about myself, how can you not? I mean you wake up in the morning and see that face, the one with day-old mascara rings and the dried zit cream and you think wow, I look like crap, I should fix that. Fast forward to an hour later and you’re staring at yourself in the bathroom again, this time with perfectly winged eye-liner and smelling like daisies, or in my case Marc Jacob’s “Daisy Dream.”   As the day goes o...

Dear Neil and Robin, I’ve met a bunch of people in my life. Some have become just a memory and others have continued to be a distinct presence in my life. We all know that not everyone is meant to be with you forever. Some people will be used as a lesson, others as a comfort, and even more are just filler bodies meant for only a conversation or small interaction. There are certain people you meet that will completely change your life, the thing that’s exceptional about life is the moment you lay eyes on that person or, that group of people you have no idea of the importance. It’s presented itself as a regular occurrence and yet it means so much more. Most of the people that I cherish in life were not thrust upon me with a flourish, it was more like nudge, they gradually inched their way into an important place in my heart. You guys are exceptional people and in this letter I’m going to tell you why.   You’ve experienced tremendous loss in the last 10 months. The loss of your d...