writing

Getting on the interstate again and I shuffle onto Spotify’s New Music Friday because they usually have some outstanding picks. I was pleasantly surprised to see Lorde come through with…

Adulting IS hard, am I right? So is blogging! With so many expectations to building an engaged following and a huge spike in services claiming to handle the hard work…

For all you by-the-book bloggers out there, I’m about to say something crazy. It shouldn’t seem that radical really, but it does go against everything I’ve been taught about blogging.…

Guest post brought to you by the Editor of Lessons We Paid For, Shelby Smith My participation in the Instagram trend of Blackout Poetry began as a fun experiment. The…

Rain drop, drop top. When will this stop? Per usual, I’ve got a lot of thoughts on recent events – particularly those that are political in nature. I put off…

Every year is your year if you’re living. How can you go from surviving to thriving in 2017? I think we’ve heard it all this year – including that 2016…

So, You Want to Write a Book? In the fall semester of my senior year of college, I decided to write a book. As if I wasn’t busy enough finishing…

I’ve teamed up with Katie + Skylar of Pare and Flourish to bring you a post about professionalism during the holidays! Holidays are possibly the best time of the year—maybe…

For a very long time, I found it difficult to call myself a small business owner. Although I’ve been running my blog for over three years, I didn’t begin taking…

In June of 2013, not all too long ago, I composed the following blog post titled “My Kind Of Southern: Identifying a Southern Belle.” It was actually markedly successful on…