This is, like, my fifth time writing this post. Fingers crossed, it will save and be published and not disappear like the last four times. Y'all know I love fall. I like the pretty leaves and the crisp weather and the hella cute outfits... But what I really love about fall are the boots. I have loved boots for as long as I can remember....

Working from home sounds like a dream... And, let's be real, it pretty much is. I don't have to worry about whether I can make it to work in the winter, I can schedule projects on my own time and, if I'm organized enough, I can sometimes take an unplanned day off. But that doesn't mean that working from home is all sunshine...

Because I don't have nearly enough books, right? Sometimes I just get the urge to go into a bookstore. Sometimes it is because I'm looking for something specific, but sometimes it is just because I like to be surrounded by books. Maybe it's a writer thing, or a reader thing... Maybe it's an introvert thing? I don't know. All I know is that...

You don't hear about mental illness much in the blogging community, though I'm sure a fair few of us deal with it on a daily basis. Part of that might be because, as bloggers, we strive to share the good parts of our lives: our interests, our adventures, and things that make us happy. It's hard enough to talk about mental illness in...

Wondering why Friday's blog post was conspicuously absent from your feed? Me too. I had a great post written up; it was witty and funny but, most of all, about boots. Trust me, you would have loved it. But every time I would hit that final 'save' before I published, all of my text would disappear. This happened three times before I decided eff...

I have struggled with my body image for much of my life. I was always a little chubby growing up-- not unhealthy so, but my body was just a little softer than those of the other girls. I didn't notice it a whole lot until the fourth grade, when the cliques really started to form in my mostly white, suburban elementary school. A...