It’s not fair for me to ask for your story without sharing a bit of my own first!
I was born in Castle Rock, CO, and right before middle school I moved to Happy Valley, OR. I loved learning itself, but was bored in a lot of my classes at school, and often struggled with feeling like I didn’t fit in with my peers. Then, I skipped a grade and moved onto high school, where I fell in love with journalism! After that, learning and writing has been a great passion of mine. I got into my dream school, George Fox University, and I’m studying communications and writing while participating in their Great Books Honors Program. Now, my family lives in Crawfordville, FL, and I hope to move somewhere where it rains! I can’t wait to keep learning and serving others!
Here’s a few things that might be helpful to get to know me…
Inspirations
These are some of the books I’ve recently read that I found in some way inspiring!
- Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius of Loyola
- Discourse & Meditations by René Descartes
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal
- Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Walking on Water by Madeline L’Engle
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- City of God by St. Augustine
- The Confessions by St. Augustine
- On the Incarnation of the Word by Athanasius
- Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
- The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale
- Embodied by Preston Sprinkle
- The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Miracles by C.S. Lewis
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope
- Beowulf by Unknown
- The Divine Names by Pseudo-Dionysius
- Deliverance from Error by Al-Ghazali
- An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication: Building Great Relationships with Faith, Skill, and Virtue in the Age of Social Media by Quentin J. Schultze & Diane M. Badzinski
Goals
Lord willing, here are some of my future plans…
2024-2025:
- Visit Iceland & Sweden
- Save enough money to move to graduate school securely
- Find a graduate assistantship to help earn my master’s degree
- Find another job at a non-profit or in higher education
- Keep writing my book
2025-2026:
- Move out into my own apartment (with my dog, Reese)
- Complete my master’s degree
- Continue working
- Keep writing my book
2026-2027:
- See Switzerland
- Continue working
- Research Ph.D. programs
- Keep writing my book
2027-2028:
- Enroll in a Ph.D. program
- Continue working
- Submit a draft of my book to editors