It has been an odd tiring day mostly because I've cried so much. I woke up with a physical pain in my heart because of a dream/real life occasion and that automatically set the tone for the next few hours of my day. My loneliness smacked me upside the head today and I finally emotionally reacted. With the end of a long-term committed relationship ( Read more... )

For years this online journal has been a venue for me to vaguely express outrages and disappointments or post memories and new enlightenments. When I first began writing here it used to be what Facebook applications have now become: pointless, adolescent, and a waste of time. Here and there I might have a handful of meaningful posts but I would ( Read more... )

today is Greg Trevino's birthday - September 15 ( Read more... )

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore.

Dream.

Discover.

- Mark Twain

Two more weeks of working at TOMS headquarters and then Kelsey and I are off on the road. Go big or drive by.

I don't like that I wrote so flippantly about my breakup in the previous entry. It was absolutely horrible. I have to face that decision every day and I'm trying to remember why it was the best thing to do. But I can't anymore. And I keep having to discern whether it is the aspect of being in a relationship with someone that I miss or the actual ( Read more... )

New update:

I'm living in Santa Monica, CA right now until the end of September. Then I'll be traveling around the States promoting TOMS Shoes (www.tomsshoes.com) until mid-December. Just call me Vagabond Laura.

My boyfriend and I have recently ended our relationship. That was hard as heck and took a lot of inner strength and trust that it would be ( Read more... )

A long OVERDUE update ( Read more... )

I Made Her Because I Love Her

I made her . . . She is different
She is unique
With love I formed her in her mother's womb.
I fashioned her with great joy.
I remember, with great pleasure,
the day I created her.
(Psalm 139:13-16)

I love her smile.
I love her ways.
I love to hear her laugh.
And the silly things she says and does.
She brings Me great pleasure.
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I don't know why I am the way I am. There are some things about me I wouldn't change, yet there are others I wish could be taken away. The biggest question I have right now is why. WHY this, WHY that, WHY. I don't want to hurt others yet I don't want to be unhappy, so how do you balance  both interests? Why should it seem like there is a necessity  ( Read more... )