I started posting in live journal at 15. I am now 27. In twelve years my world has certainly changed. I am expecting my first child any day now and the joy he has already brought me I can not even begin to express. I have found an amazing travel companion and we have been married almost two years. I have a college degree and a good job and a cozy ( Read more... )

The transition of a working stiff to a student was not at all challenging, the transition from a student back to a working stiff has presented itself with some challenges. I just find it so disheartening that I have worked so hard for a degree that is utterly useless, I am now just very over qualified for the job I had before I went back to school ( Read more... )

After a long and seemingly endless progression of educational endeavors, I find that in a week I will be a college graduate. It honestly seems like it was just yesterday that I decided to move up here to focus on completing the degree that would ultimately take me six years to finish, but that choice was the best choice I have made to this date. ( Read more... )

I am twenty-five, recently engaged, six months from away from being a college graduate. There are no words to describe how thankful I am. There are such great things at work in an existence we but barely understand, so all that I can do is reflect on just how beautiful this life is, or for how fortunate I am to have a loving family, to be marrying ( Read more... )

My brother turns 20 on Friday
and it breaks my heart
because once this little boy was my best friend
and now he is a stranger
and growing made this happen
All I have now is Atlanta
to remind me that he and I
have the same spirit
He is the only person
I ever think understood
what it was to be family

I move to Saint Augustine in 8 weeks.
Things these days just seem easier.
Its just the process of stopping the urge to fight everything little change in life.
I am begining to travel
I have a book plan in the works
I love the man I found in this journey.
I love our sober life
I cant wait until tomorrow, first time in my life, that I can say that.

Its fathers day now ten months in.. time is slowing down.. and this is everything.. In all this I found that you made me into something.. something real.. and however selfish, angry and damaged you are you are still it..I want a life with you.. I surrender.. its all I can do.. because when you know, you know.. there is no looking back.

This is a new year.. I am afraid of this economy.. I have faith in people and love again.. Trying to keep my head above water in this fiscal reality.. trying to maintain a job.. focusing more so on what God has given me.. and how grateful I am for that.

Almost two months.. well I'm suprised for both of us.. Having you was like being blind and having sight for only a breif moment..it has made me more bitter about the possibility of happiness.. I dont understand.. maybe I never will.. Why God places people so perfectly and why we choose to walk away...

I am your passenger.. but you barely know.. that I am here right beside you on every turn.. on every road..time like highway keeps going on and on.. and it brings me closer to you..