LW

I don't like when people see me in the middle of a process. It feels embarassing. I prefer displaying finished products. Maybe it is a fear of someone seeing the humanness in me. Maybe it's pride. I don't know. Moving to a new apartment in a new country, I have very few material things to fill my apartment with. I have been looking forward to a house warming party of sorts but thought I needed to wait until I had the apartment fixed up exactly like my Pinterest board before inviting people...

I studied French in school for six years. I always wanted to be able to speak it since my family has Cajun French roots. After graduation, I began traveling and learning Spanish, forgetting most of the French I had learned over the years. Seven years later, I decided to take up studying the language again. I was above the moon leading up to my first day, but after half of the class, I was straight up over it. I barely remembered anything from school and felt so frustrated for not recalling...

The other day I was headed home after a conference. It looked like it was going to rain, but I was hoping to get ahead of it. A few...