Ben & Betsy! I have taken a break from my online dating life in lieu of looking for a job. It’s just too hard to balance the time it takes to find someone within my parameters, availability, and overall desire to actually meet them, with the numerous other things I am trying to accomplish at the present moment. Do not be discouraged though; there is one couple...

Life experiences make you who you are. I have been greatly blessed having parents who were always making us travel to this or that and trusted me when I would want to go on a trip without them. The greatest example was my senior spring break in highschool I asked my parents if my best friend and I could roadtrip to Nashville and stay for a week, just the 2 of us. At...

Having recently graduated from the Art Institute of Portland I am on the inevitable job hunt. This of course means going on a fair amount of interviews. I have picked out the perfect shoes, researched the company, planned my outfits accordingly, straightened my hair and smiled till my cheeks hurt. There is the nervousness of meeting for the first time, the waiting...

The more you date online the pickier you become when you browse through profiles.  I have created some basic rules that really just seem to be common sense, when deciding to ask a guy out or not. These are the guys I try to avoid and some helpful hints if you are ever in the market for online dating! DO NOT have a screen name like: urtruluv, hot4u, bigbillpdx,...

Recently I was on a trip back home and began thinking about the difference between guys in different parts of the country. Guys from the East Coast tend to have a temper, Men in the Midwest are often considered country, even if they have never been on a farm, and Dudes on the West Coast are often considered Hippies. Neither looks to fondly upon the other and can...

Sometimes I wish my life was like the movie A White Christmas. The perfect blend of classic hollywood and musical numbers! This year is my first Christmas for many things. First Christmas working the day of, first gluten free eating, first Christmas unattached to another persons family responsibilities and first Christmas having never been on an official school...

Today I have completed a task that I have been working towards what seems like my entire life. I have earned a Bachelor of Science in Design Management with a minor in Advertising Design in just 3 years. Today I will be starting ending and starting chapters of my life that I never thought would be written. I have worked what seemed at the time ridiculously hard to...