I’ve learned that what you dream of rarely turns out the way you plan it or imagine…sometimes better than you could ever expect, sometimes you get disappointed. But here it is – what I dream of for my life.

~A life fully devoted to my Savior. Every morning waking up, as my mom would say, [...]

I am so thankful for technology and easy communication and freedom of travel.

Because of all of that, I can successfully keep up a relationship from 1500 miles away (coming up on six months in about 11 days…hip hip hooray!). Because of it, I am spending the summer getting awesome experience and learning from some [...]

The best things in life have “do not enter” signs on them.

Whether that’s because there’s a certain thrill and sense of adventure in challenging the rules that makes the forbidden seem sweeter or because it actual IS better, I can’t say. I do know that if you want something to be [...]

“What is fundamentally important to you creates motion.”

I heard that several years ago, and I remembered it because it didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Lots of things create motion in my life simply because I worry that if I don’t DO them, the lack of doing will ruin everything. They aren’t what [...]

Somewhere along the way, the American dream became less about the white picket fence and a middle class job. Instead of aspiring to a life with all of your choices made easier for you, we instead hope for the ability to make MORE choices.

The beauty of abundant higher education is that you can choose [...]

So many times God has taught me things by using me to teach them to others. Have you ever found yourself giving someone advice that you didn’t actually know before it came out of your mouth?

I found myself talking about struggling through prayer with God. How Abraham literally fought with God over the destruction [...]

As of about 5:10 this afternoon, I am officially Covidien/Valleylab‘s newest summer intern.

What does that mean? Basically I get to move to Boulder, Colorado for the summer and work for a medical research company on electrosurgical devices. Kinda crazy, huh??

I’m more than excited. Ok, I’m not going to lie, being able [...]

I’m finally finishing one of the posts I started a few weeks ago…

I fall down, over and over, and I get good at being so angry with myself for falling into the same hole that I almost begin to think that it’s MY HOLE, why shouldn’t I fall into it? At least it’s not [...]