Teach yourself to love without prejudices.
Respect and integrity should come from within
                    Before we demand it from those around us.

To someone I love…

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, & it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
- Marilyn Monroe

There is nothing more powerful than confidence. Love your body for everything that it is, and is not, because at the end of the day it's your personality that we’ll fall in love with.

I couldn’t possibly begin to explain
How much I love and appreciate our
Weird
Deep
Funny
Cute
Loud
Sad
Awkward  
Conversations over pancakes

Thanks for being a part of the greatest moments of my life

I think sometimes you have to decide what you can live with
What you can live with and not tell someone
What could damage your relationship with someone
What could hurt someone
What you should just let go
Even if they’d want you to tell them
Or maybe, even if they think they’d want you to tell them

**Disclaimer: Unless it would cause more damage to you, someone else, or your relationship with someone else by not telling them**

You know that person
Who tells you certain details about their personal life
Because they think it’ll make them look better?
I wish they’d realize it only makes them look like an ass

What are you trying to prove?
Stop overcompensating
We like you the way you are

Common courtesy doesn’t seem to be very common.

Fact:
Making postcards is my favorite
(and so is the person I send them to)

I never understood how people can erase others so easily
How they can forget so easily
People they grew up with
People they grew with
Cried with
Laughed with
Loved with
Learned with
Lived so fully with

Every once in a while
I feel like there’s a piece missing

I feel like it’s you

Do you ever look up
And wonder why you haven’t in so long?

Happy April Fool’s
Do people say “Happy April Fool’s”?

It’s my great grandmother’s birthday today
Don’t ask me how old she would have been
I can hardly remember how old I am most of the time
Sometimes I still tell people I’m 16

We called her Grandma Ann
She called me Tagger
She said I reminded her of herself
I always saw that as a huge compliment
She was one of those people who are full of life and energy and attitude

My mom and I would visit her as often as possible
She’d hand me a can of warm Diet Sprite with a straw floating out of it
And I can’t say that I find it completely appetizing, but it was her
She always had a bag of pennies for me too
I don’t think she meant to
But she taught me a lot about the value of a dollar
Or the value of a penny rather
I can’t tell you how much money I piled up from our visits
It was kind of an amazing thing as a little kid
I felt a bit guilty about it all
I still pick up change on the ground though Grandma Ann ;)

She passed away last year
It was one of those moments where you get the call
And you lean up against something for support
And just melt to the ground
Sit in shock
And then
Once it hits you
The tears start to flow
And you don’t really care who’s watching

I assumed she’d live forever

But unfortunately
Nothing lasts forever
Or so I’ve heard

Happy Birthday
Love you