We’re here again. August recap! And the fact that the past three weeks have been completely swallowed by the start of semester is both baffling and very on-brand for my life. So much happened in August before the 23rd that I almost forgot all of it. Almost. Let’s get into it. 🍂 My First 10K […]
June & July: A Little Bit of Everything
Wheeew…I missed June and almost July. Well, technically I skipped June, and here we go. Two months bundled into one post. And yes, I need to do better instead of delaying posts until later in the middle of the next month. And for that I apologize 💛 The reason June didn’t get its own blog […]
May: Ask, Seek, Knock
Okay, so. This May post was not supposed to happen — or rather, I was not supposed to write it. But here we are. June, and I’m finally hitting publish on May. Bear with me. 💛 May was… something else. It began, as most of my months do, with paper prep. But somewhere in the first […]
Running and Blossoming through April — Literally and Figuratively
April came in busy, bloomed beautifully, and left me full of gratitude. Here’s the full rundown. ☀️ Here goes an attempt to make use of my blog, which I have left dormant for quite a bit — trying my very best to use it. With my courses done, it felt prudent, or otherwise a better […]
PhD Life: On becoming a PhD Candidate
Two and a half years. Five courses. An exemption I didn’t want but, somehow, circumstances warranted. And one email thread I will never delete that resulted in transition What a journey! And I took a sigh of relief,This is such a long overdue post considering I had bits and pieces of it sitting in my […]
March: Thrilling, full of firsts, and gratitude
March. One word: thrilling. It started off slow or maybe not. Let me try my very best to recap the month in a couple of sentences. The first day of the month was a Sunday, and in this household that means our feet are firmly rooted in the house of the Lord, so I went to […]
PhD Life: On Completion of My Second Year as a PhD Student
I am writing with so much excitement to say this year ended far better than the last. This time, things were different. I wasn’t bitter about failing a course with a B+ (or worse) and being required to retake something else in place of it since A- and above is the passing grade because the […]
PhD Life: On Completion of My First Year as a PhD Student
Failure. That’s the word I’ve been using to describe myself as my first year of PhD comes to an end. Closely followed by Disappointed, Discouraged, Embarrassed, Hopeless, Ashamed, and Sad. I know all these are negative emotions, and what’s worse, I feel them all at the same time. Reflecting on the Past Year Let’s take […]
Quotes that I have enjoyed over time in different seasons
God takes full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him. Charles Stanley, https://www.bible.com/events/48737902 You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting. James V. Hart, Hook You don’t look happy or excited about the prospect of our […]
Goodbye, friend 👋🏾
For the past two days, as I rise from bed, a soft utterance escapes my lips: “I wish we had more time.” More time to reconnect, engage in our familiar conversations, but above all, more time to simply talk. You made your presence felt on May 31, 2020, when I needed a friend—always reliable. On […]