by zolaray | Jul 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
When I was in high school, I went along with nearly anything people said around me. I wouldn’t just stay silent. I would actively agree verbally, while feeling that internally I disagreed immensely. Some of the issues were small, but other times I pretended to be okay...
by | Jan 4, 2017 | Life Lessons, Uncategorized
Hey everyone! I have a tendency to avoid putting overly personal blog posts on my professional site, but since I am a writer, I feel it may be best to just go ahead and say what’s on my mind. I’ve always been the type to be hesitant about New Year’s...
by | Jun 20, 2016 | Life Lessons
A therapy session is a safe space where you can say whatever is on your mind. While you’re allowed to say anything you need to say, there are some things you can say that may sabotage your happiness. Of course, if you struggle from mental health issues, your...
by | Apr 3, 2016 | Life Lessons
Author’s Note: This blog post is about my experience with positive thinking. I realize that talking about “thinking positively” can be considered a problematic topic, because many people have mental illnesses that cannot be fixed simply by thinking positively. I...
by | Mar 5, 2016 | Writing
I have wanted to be a writer since I was in third grade. Admittedly, my younger years involved moments during which I lost motivation, but I always regained it and I now know that I want to pursue writing professionally. Writing is something that I have always loved,...
by | Feb 1, 2016 | YouTube
Many who know me know that I hide from all things cinema and television. Seriously, I don’t even have Netflix. Part of this is because I’m an old soul who can’t figure out all the new fangled doohickeys. And part of it is just that I simply prefer YouTube. In certain...
by | Dec 31, 2015 | Life Lessons
Today is New Year’s Eve, which means when the clock strikes midnight, I’ll try and kiss my cat and she will squirm away. Actually I think I might be sitting on a friend’s couch instead of my own. See people, I have a friend! But all jokes aside, I...
by zolaray-com | Nov 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hello and welcome to my blog! Here, I talk about anything that comes to my mind. I am a writer after all. But if you’d like a bit of an idea of what I’m typically into, here it is. Having majored in Sociology, I write a lot about race and gender, both my...
