Turn Back the Clocks

Hello Blip World. It?s been a while.

Two years, in fact. The last time I posted on this site, it was October 11, 2008. Now here we are on the same day in 2010, two years to the day since my last photograph. And quite a bit has changed.

When we last left off, I was 17 years old. I had just started college at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania and I was adjusting to finally being on my own. Now I'm just two weeks shy of my 20th birthday, living in my own apartment and getting ready to embark on a spring semester in London.

In 2008, I was trying to get used to the idea that my friends would be a couple of hours away at different colleges. Now, I'm grieving the ultimate loss of two good friends who were taken much too soon. Sandi (and here) lost her battle to breast cancer in February and Adam died from an accidental fall in early September.

Two years ago, I was single. In between then and now I let a string of boys roll through my life, but none of them quite stuck. Now, I'm in love with a boy stationed over four thousand miles away in Alaska. And I'll have to learn to survive when the love of my life deploys to Afghanistan with the US Army come April.

Back then, I was naïve. These days, I still am. I'm still learning and growing as a person. I suppose that's something I realized with time. I've become a world traveler, visiting Scotland, Guatemala, and Canada in the last two years, something I truly regret not documenting on Blip.

My goal is to be here for a year. 365 days in photographs. I need that motivation in my life.

This is me now.




Oh, and as opposed to the Nikon D60 I shot with in 2008, I now shoot with a D5000