I haven’t been able to blog for a long time, so this one is dedicated to Lowri Jones, Susan Davies Sit, Susan Jenkins Meers, Beth Roberts...

I’ll begin this post by saying this is entirely my experience and this will inevitably be very different for every immigrant based on...

As a member of the millennial generation, the events of World War II seem so distant as our world has moved at a remarkably fast pace....

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility I was...

2023 hasn't been my favourite year. Not because anything necessarily bad happened (besides Milo's injury), but because nothing much...

About five weeks ago I turned 32. I hadn't really planned on doing anything as I'm not a massive birthday person and have no one who...

It's been a while. Five days after my last post here, I celebrated my 30th birthday alone and six days after that I started my new job at...

It's been about a month since my last update on here. Last time I talked about the move to Wales from the USA and how difficult that was....

It was exactly a month ago that I landed in New York City on the final leg of a last trip to bucket list places in the United States that...

"Anytime you're gonna grow, you're gonna lose something. You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that...

In this new (decade-long, really) season of life where I have no idea what is coming, where it'll be, or who I'll become, a word has sat...

*some details of this blog are hard to read in reference to animal cruelty* [The photo above shows this pup's tattooed patient number]...

Hi friends. It's been a while. It’s been about three weeks since one chapter of my life ended. When the next will begin, I still don’t...

I don't remember when it was that I became familiar with Grace Coddington and her work but I do remember thinking it was magical. If...

Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding people have about my visa situation is that it isn't that stressful and there's easy solutions to...

I was listening to a podcast the other day about grief. Now, grief is not something I like. I am notorious for having unresolved issues...

Note: I wrote this back in 2018 but the discussion still holds weight today, so I am re-sharing. This blog post was not my original...

I have lived in the United States for close to fourteen years -- almost the same amount of time as I lived in Wales -- and yet the...

There are certain disciplines of study in which there are particular rules or oaths about doing the "right thing"; the Hippocratic Oath...

I gained 6% Welsh DNA this year. Well, not really. From the day I was able to vocalize what I was, I always said I was half Welsh and...