A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking back to 2002 through 2006: my college days.  While I have loved (for the most part) every stage of my life, those days that I spent at Otterbein held something for me that could never be replicated.
I was so wonderfully naiive, and carefree, and absolutely enthralled by life [...]

Last week I had my very first “graduation photos” shoot with Maria!  Maria is graduating from Otterbein (where I went to school) and was a really fun, easy subject to shoot.. I don’t think she can take a bad picture.  Also, I was super excited to find out that Maria is an Anne of Green [...]

Today as I was walking away from my apartment, a bird dropped out of the sky and fell at my feet. It was one of the most surreal things that has ever happened to me. It was alive and since it was such a small little bird, I think it must have been a baby [...]

Yesterday was a big realization for me. I’m not going to lie — it was dissapointing.  Sometimes I feel really sad about leaving Otterbein, but it’s stuff like yesterday that reminds me that it’s time to move on.
BUT I had a pretty schweet time in Dayton last night.
Driving helps me. And so does good [...]

“A place belongs to the one who has most deeply
loved it, they said, has hoped in it beyond
it’s self corruption. The land, the people, the city
is his if his nights are for recalling it,
calling it in tears of aloneness and amazed
thanksgiving, that luck let him kiss it in his childhood,
that it grew into him, [...]

Big news. I have Mr. Toast and Ms. Burnt Toast and they aren’t from My Paper Crane either! My mom made them for me after she saw the pictures I posted.

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So I’m done with winter quarter.
It’s kind of sad. I mean, this next one is going to be my last quarter of school. Ever. [...]