Cool breezes and falling leaves. Woodsy fires and fresh baked bread. Cocooned in used book stores and sipping sweet milky tea. Welcome to the transitional month of shifting seasons. Welcome to the most wonderful time of year filled with crisp mornings, magical musings and all things creepy crawly horror. If you haven’t seen my ReverseContinue reading “September Wrap-Up: Reverse Harems, Supernatural Romances & a Graphic Novel?”
Author Archives: Jordan
Lightly Spooky – Writing Prompt #1
It was never my intention to wake up facedown in the wet grass of my neighborhood cemetery, but intention has never been my friend. Brainstorming- Creepy, spooky vibes. Comedic/dry humor. Beginning scene. Jordan’s Take – It was never my intention to wake up facedown in the wet grass of my neighborhood cemetery, but intention hasContinue reading “Lightly Spooky – Writing Prompt #1”
How to be a Better Idealist in a Realist Kind of World
Recently, I’ve had it relayed to me that I’m a dreamer, an idealist. Put a pen and notebook in my hands and diagnose me a lifelong list maker, a chronic concept creator. As someone who has been over analytical about themselves and the world around them for as long as they can remember, I haveContinue reading “How to be a Better Idealist in a Realist Kind of World”
Perfectionism Will End Your Career
If you want to be a creator in 2020, you’re going to have to give up the idea of perfection. No one is perfect when they start. You need the learning process of trying and failing to become great in anything you do. I severely struggle with the idea of putting my thoughts and opinionsContinue reading “Perfectionism Will End Your Career”
How to Start a Business When You’re Young and Broke
There is a current surge of entrepreneurs. With the growth of social media and young people making careers out of “influencer” status and youtube channels, it’s easy to romanticize capitalizing off of your personal brand. If Gary Vaynerchuk is right, we are all headed towards this type of business anyway, and if you’re not onContinue reading “How to Start a Business When You’re Young and Broke”
Why I’m Not Scared to Start a Brick and Mortar Business
I just signed a 14 month lease for the boutique wellness center I’m bringing to Spokane, WA. The leasing agent jokingly asked me why I was signing the lease when I hadn’t finished licensing paperwork or even finished massage therapy school. He asked, “Aren’t you afraid?” Being a young female, my bias immediately wondered ifContinue reading “Why I’m Not Scared to Start a Brick and Mortar Business”
Gratitude and Joy will make you Happier
Depression has a way of creeping under your skin, and stripping your muscles from your bones, replacing your parts with shame and exhaustion. Moments are spent frustrated by your own lack of care and wondering if you’ll ever be able to truly feel happy again, but this quest for happiness is the wrong way toContinue reading “Gratitude and Joy will make you Happier”
An Assisted Suicide
Death demands a relationship with us, whether we accept or deny. You can fear it, run from it, and try to delay it, but there is an inevitability in life that you can always count on. It will end. Morality and Medicine was published in 1954 by Josef Fletcher, illustrating his observations on the impendingContinue reading “An Assisted Suicide”
What Motorcycles Teach About Life
I recently passed my motorcycle certification, gaining that coveted ‘M’ endorsement on my license. Only a handful of my friends and family shared my enthusiasm for roadtrips and winding roads, opting instead to saddle me with statistics and deeply ingrained fears. I can’t blame someone for loving me, even if it’s constricting and consuming, swayingContinue reading “What Motorcycles Teach About Life”
Why Loving You Wasn’t Enough
The English language does quite a disservice in expressing the many forms of love. We love our romantic partners, our parents and our pets, but we love them all differently. Our first love will never feel the same as our last, and falling in love and being in love are entirely different beasts. Argentinian designer,Continue reading “Why Loving You Wasn’t Enough”
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