Happy Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! We’ve also got a beautiful poinsettia displayed in our apartment, but I didn’t get a photo of it. It’s actually really lovely to have a plant in the apartment. I’m moving to a new place pretty soon, and this is something I may try to make a regular thing. Looking

In The Sound of Music, Maria talks about, “my mountains.” I understand what she means. I love mountains, and I can’t stop looking at them when I’m back home, and not just any mountains will do. This is the winter view of my mountains from the street outside my family’s house in Utah. With those mountains

“Education went from being a right to being a crime. But when my world suddenly changed, my priorities changed too. I had two options, one was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

I woke up at 5am today to go down and take pictures at Rockefeller Center. The lights turn on at 5:30, and if you go in the morning there will be fewer crowds. Or so I heard. When we got there at 6am, it was pouring rain and we were the only ones there. We

Today was the best day! Yes, this blog is dedicated to the daily celebration of national days, but that doesn’t stop me from being the person I am. The person that is over the top with Christmas. I just love it! And there is no greater place (besides home) to be during the Christmas season