You know that saying or anecdote about the starving artist? ‘Tis true. Sometimes your greatest achievements are from when you had to do it in order to survive. I am unfortunate in having to finally learn this. I advise others not to do so. -Ashley

  Yesterday, my great-grandmother passed away peacefully on her own terms. She was 100 years old! This is a sad moment in life, however, it is a celebrated one. She was an amazing, amazing woman. She took care of 16 children during summers and helped raised I think about 24+ grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I am […]

So I realized I haven’t written anything since Lucy evolved and I was talking with my friend about how she needed to start a blog because she is absolutely in love with nutrition. Like, this girl breathes health. This got to me to thinking. What am I writing about? Nooooothing. Of course. My life is […]

As See It: Class Warfare The Only Resort To Right Wing Doom  is an essential read. Going forward it is imperative that when we go into the voting booth that we are educated voters. America is currently at a tipping point. There is an ideological battle between the Left Progressive Liberals and the Right Wing […]

As I sit here and try to write my book…hahahaha…yes funny, I know, I realize that finishing tasks take a lot of will power. Hm…no. It takes a lot of stamina. I mean I have the momentum near the beginning and then it just plummets. Also, who reads my blogs anyways? It’s my website! It’s […]

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Okay so this just occurred to me. There is this counter-culture called Hipsters. Yes. Hipsters. The thing is. I had no idea they even existed considering that Austin is overrun with them. The bicycles. American Apparel and Urban Outfitters on the drag right off campus clad with cashiers with gauges and huge glasses. The dirty […]

Chris Brown has recently dropped two music videos, I believe, in the last few days. Now usually I am not into all the entertainment business mumbo jumbo and whatnot, but hey, this caught my eye. It appears to me that Chris Brown along with Rihanna are trying to put up this ‘I can do bad […]

Yesterday was a trivial and trying day. Some bad news, some good news, and no knowledge of how to handle it. When emotions collide, very stark emotions collide, it is hard to choose which one should overwhelm you more or if one should overwhelm the other in the first place. Should the bad news overwhelm […]

It is late at night…rather it is early in the morning. My friend and I are merely awake due to 5-hour energy shots and will do anything to stay off task due to the lack of entertainment studying provides. This leads to very entertaining conversations. We talked about the projected path that each one of […]