I'm passionate about traveling, reading, writing, poetry, music, photography, friends, family, learning, God, dreaming.
People who have inspired me through writing: Ranier Maria Rilke, C.S. Lewis, Anne Lammot, Donald Miller, Wendell Berry, Robert Frost, Fredrick Beuchner, Kathleen Harris, Elizabeth Gilbert
I like good music. Nostalgia and music go hand in hand. And I like nostalgia. And I like music.
I like movies that have a lot of internal conflict. I like Garden State and Spanglish and Crash. Also Juno and The Kite Runner.
Gray's Anatomy, The Amazing Race, The Biggest Loser, Real World, Man vs. Wild, Everest: Beyond the Limit, Scrubs, Everybody Loves Raymond, Lost, Americas Next Top Model, Project Runway, The L Word
The DaVinci Code, The Shopaholic books (OMG, SOOOO Funny!), Bridget Jones Diary and the sequel, The Mark of the Lion Series (Christian romance, but you WILL cry!), Redeeming Love, A Tale of Two Cities, Where The Red Fern Grows, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Pride and Prejudice, The Alchemist, The Chronicles of Narnia, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, She's Come Undone, Letters to a Young Poet (if my soulmate was a book, this would be it), Blue Like Jazz, Solitude: A Return to the Self, Godric (sometimes I feel like books understand me more than people do, and this is DEFINATELY one of those books), Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Amazing Grace, A Million Little Pieces, The Problem of Pain, A Grief Observed, HARRY POTTER!!!, Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties (this will ROCK your world...if you think you know what love means, then read this book, becuase I can promise that your ideas are wrong...seriously.) Searching for God Knows What, Running With Scissors, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Magical Thinking, Dry, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Color Purple, Eat Pray Love, The Pillars of the Earth, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Crooked Little Heart, Stern Men
Truthfully, my family and friends are the people I respect and look up to most. I have been so blessed with amazing people in my life.