April Showers.

April is a strange month for me. Definitely one of transition. Somehow, PA is always caught between seasons. She wants so badly to be warm and green, but the cold never gives us that easily around here.

This April is no different.

This April has been filled with summer-like days & other days where I need a sweater and boots. It has been filled with the sight of beautiful flowers and growth and the sight of national tragedy. It has been a month of personal lows and personal strength.

April confuses me.

Last week, we had the most beautiful spring thunderstorm. The air was so warm and heavy that we opened all of our windows and let the rain drops fall into our rooms just to smell the freshness of it all.

This has been a challenging year for me personally, and a challenging year for our country. What keeps me going is the strength of my family, my friends, my community, this country. And me. I am stronger than I think.

Whether it is showering or storming in your life, open the windows & face it head on. You are much stronger than any storm.


- Liz

Small Steps, Big Changes

A spring table setting

Well, Spring is finally starting to show herself around the Lehigh Valley. The weather is starting to brighten, which naturally brings a brightening of my mood. I wasn't too happy about Easter being in March this year, but it did signal the end to a very long winter.

Spring in Pennsylvania is a beautiful time of the year. Things get so green here. This is the time of year where I realize why I left NY and moved back to PA. I wanted land. Space. Green. Growth.

Sometimes, I can't help but catch myself staring in awe at the spacious farmland stretching throughout the valley, the sky blue and freckled with clouds.

With a window cracked open, the scent of rebirth is in the air.

As I wrote in my previous entry, I was struggling with where I was at lately. But one of my sorority sisters sent me a little reminder that "we, not events, have the power to make us happy or unhappy today. We can choose which it shall be."

I am choosing happiness.

Things are not perfect. But they are good.

-Liz