Tag Archives: Growing up

One year on my own.

I arrived on Prince Edward Island exactly one year ago today. One whole year. I can’t believe it. Can you believe it? Where the heck did the past year go? I feel like it’s been 6 months, at most. Not a whole year. I can’t believe it’s gone so fast. I just re-read my first [...]

Ooh, I'm stuckity stuck stuck stuck.

If you’re gonna be stuck, you might as well make it into a weird rhyming thingy. I am still feeling uncomfortable, and out of touch with my own identity. I constantly come back to the same pattern – feeling stuck, specifically in the mind of a 12 year old. I feel like I got benched [...]

Lost: Identity. Found: Scared 12 year old.

Please, never pick up a chronic illness until after adolescence. Just trust me on this one. I’ve been feeling…weird lately. I say weird, because the word I’m looking for doesn’t actually exist. I mean, is there a word for “my whole identity feels weird and screwed up because I didn’t have an adolescence so now [...]