It is said that you fall in love slowly and then all at once. Staring in the mirror year after year, slowly aging, everything seems to be in the right place on the right track, until it isn’t. Suddenly there are wrinkles and brown spots, and texture, and fuzzy things that were not there previously in all those gazes in the mirror. Skin should not have to face the consequences from fun in the sun and gravity but it does. It is part of aging and embracing it, for one, is the best way to combat all the years of…

One of my all time favorite songs is “Karma Police” by Radiohead. There is a lyric that says, “For a minute there, I lost myself. I lost myself.” It has happened in my life where I look back in hindsight and do not recognize the person that I was. It seems as though I lost myself. What I really lost were my core values. Sitting in a quiet space with a notebook and pen, I found what my true values were. Thoughts that came up during this time were ones that angered me, thoughts of bliss, and unfulfilled dreams arose.…