My girl gang

May 26, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Having strong female figures around me as I continually grow into the woman I’m becoming has been the corner stone of my understanding of life, self-growth, relationships, and femininity. Even Michelle Obama recognized the importance of keeping a close knit group of girls, saying that maintaining a safe harbor of female wisdom was something that […]

To the women who raised me on Mother’s Day

May 12, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

The women who raised me shaped me. I think most men and women can agree with that to some extent. While today the strong female is a rising figure, for me a strong female role model has been a thread throughout my whole life. I think of how I move about my life day to […]

This I believe

August 4, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’ll always remember debating in school whether people are inherently good, or inherently evil. There was never a conclusion or a right answer, it was always just a discussion. I liked to think that people are inherently good when I was young. How could people be inherently evil when those people were the select few? […]

Can’t handle the heat? Step away from the STEM

May 27, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Being a woman is hard, and being a woman in the sciences is even harder. As a young girl who played in creeks, explored tide pools, and tried to save abandoned baby animals, I had no idea that challenges I would face as I pursued a career that followed those young interests. Through college I […]

Women, Art, and other Matters Concerning the Mind of the Complex and Complicated

August 29, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

As a writer (or at least someone who enjoys writing), I often have a desire to look back at things I’ve written in the past. Digging through some old poems, personal narratives, and letters to myself I found an old manifesto I wrote as a class assignment. I wrote this about 2 years ago, and […]