She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.