Just Watch Me Fly

Hey guys, it's been a while since I've posted anything and for good reason.  The summer was spent sending countless emails, working, coordinating surgery before school started, and generally trying to survive. But now I'm here in Glasgow, it still doesn't feel quite real but it's starting to. More about that in another post, first we need to catch up. Real talk, this has been probably the hardest and worst year of my life. I've had people hurt me and the people I care about in ways that I can't fix or reconcile, and I had to go through the process of forgiving them anyways even though they probably won't ever do the same for me. My health once again tried to derail my life, a new diagnosis and I learned some very hard truths about my body and the safety of having kids that I had to come to terms with. I lost friends and was backstabbed in ways that cut me deeper than they ever had before, I felt trapped and so incredibly alone and depresse

Obligatory picture of me on a very good day.  Hey guys! So this is my first post on this blog, hopefully, the first of many to come! The second weekend of April was a big one for me as I was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society, Delta Alpha Pi, International Disability Honors Society, as well as receiving an English department scholarship, all things that I am very excited about!  In the future, I hope to be published in one of the society journals as well as competing for an internship in New York at a publishing house that I would  absolutely love  to work at one day.  My Honors Society advisor Mrs. Walker, AKA the most amazing human being ever! My official induction certificate!  Chair of the English Department, an incredibly wonderful man and I hope to take a class with him!  It was a great couple of days, so in light of that, m y word for the day is perseverance.  Never stop chasing the horizon. And what I mean by that is