January 11, 2017

“You haven’t practiced your speech. You didn’t spend time with your little sister today. You skipped your editing. You’re slacking in school—cutting Shakespeare assignments and often skipping science tests. Your friends do so much to support you and read your blog, but how often do you read anything they write? You’re never doing as much…

Boundaries, Dating
January 9, 2017

Genre: Self Help on Dating and Relationships Favorite Quote: “Freedom and responsibility are necessary for love to develop in dating. When two individuals allow each other freedom and take ownership of the relationship, they are creating an environment for love to grow and mature.” You’ll like this if you like: Cultivating Healthy Relationships, Boundaries by Henry…

Writing Prompt
January 6, 2017

Writing Prompt Rules Writing Prompt: You’re seated in a subway when someone brushes past you and drops a crumpled piece of paper into your lap. You unfold the paper, and it reads, “Get out, while you still can.”

January 4, 2017

With permission of my friend, Madelyn Oney, I’ve been given the privilege to use her Instagram post on body image and beauty as today’s blog post. First of all, I have to applaud her courage and vulnerability in allowing me to repost this. I hope you girls find her example as inspiring as I did….

Book Review, Speculative
January 2, 2017

Genre: Speculative You’ll like this if you like: Biblical Stories with a Fresh Perspective, Unexpected Plot Development, or Developing Personal Attachments to Characters. Favorite Profound Quote: “The way to love Elyon was to give yourself completely to his ways, without the slightest compromise.” Favorite Descriptive Quote: “The floor greeted him hard, pounding the scream from…

New Year's Resolution
December 30, 2016

New Year’s Eve is tomorrow! Do you have any New Year’s Resolutions? If so, what are they? Are You Making New Year’s Resolutions for 2017?

New Year's Resolutions God Faith
December 28, 2016

At the beginning of 2016, Get Closer to God was one of my many New Year’s Resolutions. It seems like if you can nurture a more intimate relationship with God, everything else will fall into place. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” -Matthew…

December 19, 2016

Quite honestly, I’m not sure if you’re supposed to do this for blogs, but for the next week (December 19-26), I’ll be out taking a break instead of writing blog posts. I hope you guys enjoy Christmas! If you have any thoughts or suggestions for posts or polls in the meantime, feel free to leave…

December 16, 2016

Today, we have a rather urgent question to answer: which cookie is Santa’s favorite? What kind of cookies should we leave for him in exchange for presents? 😉 What’s Santa’s Favorite Cookie?

road writing
December 15, 2016

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a writer. While this is true, this isn’t where my story begins. My story starts a bit further back. In the 2nd grade actually. (Also posted on: Lands Uncharted) When I was in the 2nd grade, being a writer had never crossed my mind. I simply devoured…