When I started my job at Duke last fall, I set out on a mission to SAVE MONEY. While I’m not doing bad, I’m not necessarily doing good. There are days when I need a more professional wardrobe, so I buy new clothes. There are days when I just don’t want to cook, so I go out to eat. There are days when I want to pick up poop off the ground, so I  buy a new puppy. There are days when I feel like poop on the ground, so I buy a beverage (of the alcoholic variety). Ge

Do you love poetry as much as I do? Have you read the awful (and awfully addicting) Fifty Shades of Grey book? At our book club last month, I gave each of the girls the assignment to write a “BDSM poem” to go along with the risque theme of Fifty Shades of Grey. The only rules were that the poem had to be 4 lines, and each line had to begin with B-D-S and M (which is the abbreviation for bondage, dominance, sadism, and masochism, otherwise known as “S & M̶

Occasionally, I will have time to read some of my favorite blogs, and a recent favorite of mine has been Making Things Happen. I don’t know these girls and they do not know me, but I was instantly drawn to their inspirational writing, their hard work, and their positive attitudes. When one of the writers referenced the above quote, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” I found so much truth in this statement. I instantly began ev