Once upon a time, a seventeen year old girl was preparing for her high school graduation. She had the world at her fingertips and had big plans for her future. Three months before she put on her cap and gown, her world was turned upside down when she became extremely sick and unhealthy. Years of close calls, pain, and discomfort were about to cloud her path, yet all she begged her parents for were to let her go to New York City with her best friends before their graduation day. The girl should have been a lawyer, because she was able to argue her point to her parents that she should be able to live life to it's fullest before things got worse...and that was before YOLO was a thing.

Anyway. Back to this heartfelt story:

They let her go despite everything.

The girl saw New York City.

She sang along to a Broadway Show.

She stood in silence where the Twin Towers fell.

She got chased out of Central Park for buying a knock off Gucci purse thinking it was the real thing.

She spent her college textbook budget shopping on 5th Avenue.

She danced in Times Square with her best friend at 4 a.m.

She made memories.

She found her wings.

She fell in love.

She lived.

On the day they were set to head home, the girl took in the Manhattan skyline one more time, and vowed to return; not as a vacationer, but as a woman ready to live out a dream that was dreamt during her stay.

She dreamt of success, of fame, she dreamt she was a part of the city that never sleeps. She promised herself she'd make it happen.

And so she did, nearly ten years later-- but she did it.

In case you haven't figured it out, that girl was me.

Duh.

I'm so thrilled to announce that this IS THE YEAR I'll be taking on the Big Apple and a dream marketing job I couldn't be more excited for 

From now until May/June-ish, Michigan will get to have me for the majority of the time while I make the gradual transition out there to the city of my dreams.

I'll also be FINALLY releasing my novel "Where Hope Lies" before officially heading out there, but what a place to promote my book as it also makes it's way across the web via Amazon.com (Paperback + Kindle) and Barnes and Noble Nook Store.

2015, I am SO incredibly excited for you.

" She believed she could-- and so she did."