Author name: Kayla

Thoughts on Effort and Meaning

It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. -Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own It’s been over a week since I deleted my social media accounts. In the future, I’ll write about my experience. Suffice it to say I’m thriving without […]

Mastering Circumstances

“If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.” -Count Rostov in A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot lately. A Gentleman in Moscow is a novel that centers on Count Rostov, a Russian who has been placed under

Media vs Social Media vs Reality

After I had my first child and for many years after that, I did my best to stay on top of all of the news, every day. I felt a need to stay super-informed on everything that was going on in the world, I suppose out of an abundance of caution about what threats I

The Day I Thought I Was Dying

The day I thought I was dying began like any other day of my second grade year. I rode the bus to school, as always, and the day plodded along, like it always did, until the blessed reprieve of recess. The only thing out of the ordinary was that we had a substitute teacher that

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