Who Knew

... and an introduction to 2015. Okay, yes, I realize it's not Saturday night. But all week I wasn't able to keep straight what day of the week it was. The roommate and I were at kickboxing the other night and having a quick chat between exercises about what day it was. She told me it was Wednesday and I still thought it was Thursday and just couldn't get it out of my head. I couldn't even say Wednesday even though she had literally just told me it was. This is how I feel my 2015 has been so far. A powerful whirlwind that takes your breath away. But before I get too far ahead, I want to take some time to recap 2014 (well, really just the end of it) and lay it to rest. Let's not kid ourselves, overall it was a shitty year. 2013 ended shitty with the devastating and totally startling breakup that happened and so I carried all sorts of baggage into the year.  Already feeling unwanted, lonely, depressed and abandoned, things got worse. I found out that a group of ...

Y'all. Life is so interesting. There's been SO much, and exactly nothing , happening all at the same time. I've been all over the place in the past couple of months- lots of great travels, adventures, reconnections. So many amazing conversations and thoughts, and there's one thread that I just can't stop thinking about.  And it's this: What makes you so important? And just like my life, I think the answer is S O much, and exactly nothing . I went to my first Beta Theta Pi chapter meeting recently. (Sidenote: It's been a while since I'd been to a fraternity chapter meeting and the feeling of walking into a room of 60 men and knowing just a handful of people was an overwhelming experience, but a welcome one.) Part of the conversation that evening revolved around risk management, what are the expectations for being a member of this organization-- you know, all of the really fun things that students love to hear about.  During this conversation, one of m...