It’s been awhile since I’ve updated this site, along with some of my others. I can say that since December of last year my life has been incredibly…interesting, difficult, varied, unexpected. With caring for my dad before he passed away in March, overcoming my latest anxiety bouts, reluctantly going on a new antidepressant, trips to Oregon, my best friend meeting her birth family, and all these new things I’ve had to learn in the process of these events.

The year 2017 has been a really rough year for many, especially those around me. Many deaths and natural disasters, and you could say political disasters as well. But when I look back on this year thus far, I personally don’t have a sense of bitterness about it.

I feel like this year carried a great deal of change that needed to happen, in most cases. In fact I tend to view everything as business as usual, things unfolding as they will, always for a reason and not necessarily one that we understand until much later after it has passed.

I also feel like I learned a lot more about myself and how my brain works. Difficult situations tend to show me my imperfections a little clearer.

These things can be incredibly unpleasant but I feel that there is a rhyme and order to everything; it’s all a chain of cause and effect that I have to accept, that will only improve when people learn from their mistakes and ignorance.