Love, Ashley.

Relentlessly self-aware.

I smell like tangerine’s and weed.

October 16, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

2/27/2016 My fingertips smell like tangerine’s and my ‘draft box’ is catching up to my ‘post box’. I spent ten minutes reading an old friend’s blog to try and see how she was doing, and since my new roommate’s moved in I’m pretty sure my house always smells like weed. I’m beginning my 4th week […]

11 years ago

October 16, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

1/20/16 11 years ago my dad met a homeless man outside a Tim Horton’s and bought him coffee. Before he left, he gave the man his business card and told him to call if he ever needed to. When I lived at home with my parents I don’t remember a day that the phone didn’t […]

Asthma, Awkwardness, & Anxiety

October 16, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’m a little bit out of breath and a little bit nervous, but I’m doing just fine.

On kissing.

October 16, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Don’t kiss me too quickly, please.

I’m tired of small talk.

October 16, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

1/3/2016 I’m tired of small talk. I want to know your 3am thoughts, and where you hide your self-doubt. I want to know what you’re most scared of, and the last time you fell apart. Because I’ve heard enough about the weather, and there’s so much I could just look up online. I want to […]

NYE

October 16, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

1/1/2016 Tinsel. So much tinsel. Everywhere. A crippled Twister mat, and a deck of cards littering the ground. Champagne and wine, and wine glasses with thumb holes. I think we danced more than we breathed.

20 things for being 20.

October 16, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

1/1/2016 The best thing you can do for yourself is to leave. For 1 month, 2 months, 2 years – even if it means you end up realizing you were exactly where you belonged in the first place. Get up, and go. Recognize that being independent is different than being single. Your independence should still […]

As 2015 came to a close.

October 16, 2016.Reading time 22 minutes.

12/31/2015 With the closing of the year, and the nostalgia New Years Eve never fails to bring, there seemed no better reason to take a glance at what happened over the past 12 months. When I entered the new year last December 31st, I was half-tipsy and half in love, giggling over a bottle of […]

Pictures of perfection.

October 16, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

It’s there… in moments. Don’t miss it.

Transit is full of eaves droppers and people watchers.

October 16, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

11/27/15 When it comes to public transit, I am the epitome of a people-watcher in the utmost curious and non-creepy way possible. You witness the most fascinating people on public transit, and it’s interesting to watch a collective group of strangers co-exist within the strangeness of that setting. You have the boys in their early […]