I stood under a small, concrete gazebo in east Africa and watched the rain pour down all around me. I took a deep breath and looked out at le pays des mille collines (the land of a thousand hills) – Rwanda. It had been 8 years but I’d made it back to one of the…
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Confessions of a {maybe} Hippie
A few weeks ago, I deleted (and deactivated) Facebook and Instagram off my phone. I didn’t say anything beforehand, but it was something I’d been pondering for a while as I found myself mindlessly scrolling through it without even knowing. For me, besides the mindless scrolling, it had to do a lot with how I was…
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Second Guessing & Knowing
Right now it’s 9:30 here and I just finished a short paper for school. I’m in a Psych class that focuses on the disorders of childhood, and it’s my second week. It’s a hard one. Besides my math class that nearly caused me to stick a spoon into my eyes to avoid seeing x +…