Life With Lexis K.

Hey there family! It's me again.  First, can I ramble? Forgive me. I've been binging Sex and the City, so I'm definitely in my Carrie Bradshaw era.  When I was younger, elementary school-aged, I wrote lots of poetry. My 5th-grade reading teacher, Mrs. Latta, gave me a notebook that I would write long-hand poetry almost every day. Mostly, it was just word vomit on a page, but I wrote some pretty decent pieces, too. Unfortunately, I don't have any of my school-aged poetry anymore. Still, I can reminisce on this time in my life in great detail and appreciate my early creativity. I wanted to write a poem today - and title it Perfectly Imperfect.  But I write blog posts now, so I wanted to share some of my thoughts with you. If you're like me, you've read all the relationship-related think-pieces on Twitter (his mama named him Twitter!) I mean between the 50/50 conversations, red pill podcasts, horror stories of marriage mishaps, and 20v1 video clips, there's eno...

This is something that I wrote one day back in 2019. Now that was almost 5 years ago. Again a great opportunity to reflect and check back in with myself. What did I Have need then versus what do I need now? How have I grown? How have I regressed? Thank you God for the opportunity to reflect. June 13, 2019 So, I’m thinking to myself… am I okay? I think this just about every day. Some days it’s yes! I’m great, awesome, fantastic! Some days it’s no, but why am I not? And I spend some time trying to understand what’s making me feel this way. And then some days it’s no. Just no. I don’t want to think about why because I don’t know why. I just feel the way I do, and I don't even want to deal with it. Today is one of those days. I feel like I’m in the negative. I almost got into the neutral zone. I thought, “Well let me find something that will make me feel better”. I google searched “Ways to feel better”, “Ways to be happy”, and “Ways to make more money” (as if that would actually make m...