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From Thought Catalog:
I need to take a minute to talk about heartbreak. I’ve been feeling it lately, in the worst possible way. I’ve cried on the subway. I’ve been listening to all my sad-song-playlists. Things I see remind me of the love I’ve lost; Halloween has been particularly hard, with everyone wearing so much orange… The 2014 Kansas City Royals took their fans on the emotional roller coaster of a lifetime this October. I’m talking Nicholas Sparks-style ups and downs. All of us fell in love with the Boys in Blue again and again this year, and I, for one, felt like I had finally found the love I’d been waiting for literally my entire life. |
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From my blog:
Now, when I say we fit together perfectly, I don’t mean that we never argue, that everything is simple and easy. It’s not. Some things are more difficult than I can even explain. Our house holds confusion, heartbreak, heartfixing, anger, frustration, and doubt. We deal with them together, because we could not deal with them alone. Our house also holds happiness, love, laughter, goofiness, smiles, hugs, and the feeling you get (that has no name) when you are perfectly content to just be in the place where you are in the moment you happen to be there. Our house holds that a lot."
From The Marquette Tribune (now Marquette Wire):
Last night, this was me. And, as I clicked the “hide” option, my eyes wandered down the pop up menu to the “unfriend” button. Will this person really miss me as a Facebook friend, I wondered? They had more than 1,500 friends, so most likely not. Now they have 1,499. However, I then glanced at my own friend count and was appalled to see a number dangerously close to the 1,000 mark."
Right now, all over the world, there are journalists who literally risk their lives in order to do their jobs and bring important, accurate information to the general public. In December, CNN.com reported that 2012 was the deadliest year for journalists since Reporters Without Borders began monitoring reporter deaths in 1995. Most of the 2012 deaths occurred in Somalia, Pakistan and Syria, where journalist and Marquette alum James Foley went missing in November."
- Community, March 13, 2014 - reflecting on my time living in intentional community as a Jesuit Volunteer
Now, when I say we fit together perfectly, I don’t mean that we never argue, that everything is simple and easy. It’s not. Some things are more difficult than I can even explain. Our house holds confusion, heartbreak, heartfixing, anger, frustration, and doubt. We deal with them together, because we could not deal with them alone. Our house also holds happiness, love, laughter, goofiness, smiles, hugs, and the feeling you get (that has no name) when you are perfectly content to just be in the place where you are in the moment you happen to be there. Our house holds that a lot."
From The Marquette Tribune (now Marquette Wire):
- Various hopes for selecting the new pope, March 5, 2013
- Facebook leads to fake connections, April 25, 2013
Last night, this was me. And, as I clicked the “hide” option, my eyes wandered down the pop up menu to the “unfriend” button. Will this person really miss me as a Facebook friend, I wondered? They had more than 1,500 friends, so most likely not. Now they have 1,499. However, I then glanced at my own friend count and was appalled to see a number dangerously close to the 1,000 mark."
- Page cuts hurt, but journalism never dies, February 19, 2013
Right now, all over the world, there are journalists who literally risk their lives in order to do their jobs and bring important, accurate information to the general public. In December, CNN.com reported that 2012 was the deadliest year for journalists since Reporters Without Borders began monitoring reporter deaths in 1995. Most of the 2012 deaths occurred in Somalia, Pakistan and Syria, where journalist and Marquette alum James Foley went missing in November."