My favorite holiday is – without a doubt – Christmas. I love everything about it. I love what it celebrates and how it makes our traditions and memories so special.Christmas is a time of giving. I love going out and finding the perfect present for those special people in my life. The best part of Christmas shopping for me is […]
Don’t blink, or you may miss it. Many people don’t even think about it until the week before. Stores hardly promote it. They sell everything you need for Halloween, and before it’s over, the Christmas stuff is already stuffing the shelves. But what about Thanksgiving? Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving? In school and church, we are taught that the first […]
Mental Health. What is it? Why is it important? Mental health refers to our cognitive, behavioral, and emotional well-being. Our mental health can affect our daily lives, our physical health, and our relationships with friends and family. It’s a huge part of our everyday lives. Just like we can have physical issues, such as sickness or broken bones, we can […]
“I can’t believe it’s Halloween,” my friend Samantha said to me. “I know. I feel like it was just yesterday we were at the beach,” I replied. “Well, you know what they say. Time flies when you are having fun,” she laughed, even when you’re not. “That’s true.” Life has been fun. The summer had been a blast, and so […]
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ~Jeremiah 29:11 We go about every day, going to work and planning our lives out for as far ahead as we can foreshadow. We start planning since we are young. We […]
One thing I enjoy doing when I actually have free time is to watch YouTube. There are so many interesting channels to watch, and you have a variety of content at your fingertips. There are covers, lifestyle vlogs, trip and adventure vlogs, beauty videos, inspirational videos, and just those that are pure entertainment. To name a few of my favorite: […]
If you have a Netflix account, then you probably have scrolled past the show “13 Reasons Why.” If you have not heard about this show, it centers on the suicide of a teenage girl named Hannah Baker. Her decision to end her life is explained through a collection of cassette tapes that she leaves behind, blaming the people responsible for […]
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ~ J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan Peter Pan is one of my favorite classic Disney movies, and it’s the one book I have read over and over. If you have never heard about Peter Pan, it is a story about a boy […]
You know that feeling. The one when you feel so unmotivated to do what you love because you are so tired from life. That is exactly how I felt last week, and I know everyone goes through it. When I get like this, I honestly take a day off from life so I can recuperate. This is what I do […]
What is love? This is a question that was posed to me the other day by my fiancé. I decided to do a search on it and see what came up. When you search this question on google, there are several different results. One that stood out to me was an article on the HuffPost, “What Is Love? A Philosophy […]
Emily Jean 