how do i explain?

Is it wrong for me to admit that I didn't miss home when I was there? That I didn't want to come home? That I don't want to BE home? That "home" feels farther away now than ever before?

i just haven’t met you yet – an ode to the single people

As vulnerable as it makes me to admit, I'm really just an anxious wreck who wants the fairytale.

dude. chill.

Let's be real...unless you're trying to protect a secret nuclear bomb, or you're creating a cure for (no, not cancer), the obesity epidemic, the future of mankind doesn't depend on you and whether you check everything off this week's to-do list.

out with 22, in with 23 (africa update!)

Even though I'm only a day older than yesterday, and only a year is added onto my age, I think I like the 22-year-old version of the single, still-haven't-graduated, still-living-at-home, me, a lot better.

nothing less than champions

It's April...and I'm happy to (once again), call today a "game day." It isn't unusual for Kansas to be playing in April. Tonight's game will mark our ninth NCAA Championship appearance. It is, however, still exciting that this team has once again gotten to the last dance on the biggest stage.

bible beaters

I had grown up in a Christian home and considered myself saved, but these people were just plain weird about it. Sure, they seemed happy, but why did they have to plaster their faith everywhere? Didn't they KNOW what others thought of them?

can anybody hear me?

Sometimes when I think about this blog I think, "Is anyone even reading what I'm writing?"

everything kansas

In my household, March is (hands down) the most anticipated and the most important month out of the entire year. More so than Christmas, birthdays, Thanksgiving, Spring Break, or even Summer break. No, the time of the year I have always looked forward to most, is March Madness.