Education

• Ohio University
• Nordonia High School

Favorite saying

• "..."I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." -William Ernest Henley, Invictus "I can't be hemmed in by rules; I go with my emotions" #sexandthecity "Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it's open." -Anthony J. Dangelo I do my thing, and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. -Frederick Salomon Perls "We’re constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not speak the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people’s crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion." -Kelly Cutrone "So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." -Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower ..."What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?" -Cheryl Strayed, Wild "There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." -Kay Redfield"