iT HURTS TO HURT SOMEONE ELSE.

There’s this new song by Taylor Swift, with the line “when my depression works the graveyard shift, all the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room”. I guess that’s happening with me, tonight. Sitting at work with the lights off, playing non lyrical music, soaking in the misery of the people I’ve bent and […]

J. Cole didn’t describe our love story.

“But love is wanting more for someone than they want for themselves.” You sent me this one evening when the end of our time together was a lot closer than the beginning. We both knew that things were not right, how could we not have known when the people we once were had drifted so […]

Getting Things Off My Chest

Sometimes life feels really really hard, and really really empty but then it has moments where I am experiencing a joy nobody could take away; and those moments are always with my friends. I tried to think of a better word to describe the way life feels to me sometimes rather than really really hard […]

People Are Just As Wonderful As Sunsets If You Let Them Be☀️

I logged onto my blog today in hopes of gathering some thoughts together as I wind down for the nights end. To my surprise, a little WordPress birdy shared with me that it’s been 3 years since I created A Step In My Shoes. I remember picking the name as a 16 year old girl, […]

An Ode to Wine and A Fuck You to Men that have Broken Our Hearts.

Where there is shitty men, there is also really delicious wine. Personally, I have never ever been disappointed with the selection of wine, but I am almost always disappointed with the selection of men. I suppose this is part of being brand new to your twenties, the experimental opportunities are vast and the lineups are […]

An Affirmation of Love

I’ve always been a big advocate for the whole “self love” ordeal. Having lived so much of my life watching friends and family form relationships simply to keep themselves upright, simply to have a human body protecting them from the force of loneliness…I made a decision long ago that I’ll know how to be content […]

Walk Away

A poem I found in the depths of my leather Journal: Walk Away. I’m standing here, begging you to walk away just like everyone before you. I’m lying here, a vulnerable catastrophe.. asking you to walk away. Because my love wasn’t enough last season. The leaves turning vibrancies of orange and yellows wasn’t enough to […]

The Way You Strip Me Down

The way you strip me down is so graceful from the magnifying window you watch me through. For you, stripping me down is so easy, it seems as though you practice everyday. When I think of the way you strip me down, I think of the first night we met. I think of the whispered […]

19 Lessons I Learned In 19 Years

As I lay in bed, staring up at the stars lining my roof; I find myself reflecting back on my childhood, when I layed in the same position looking at the same glow in the dark stars in a room filled with pink and fluffy. I’m not sure how I went from the curly haired, […]

Anxiety Stunts Your Growth

At one time in my life, before my thoughts were a constant battle between ice and fire: I woke up with optimism flowing between my bones. I woke up, swifted away the dust building upon the creases of my forehead, and wrote ” I see beauty” where the dust particles once lingered. I woke up […]