NEW YORK ROCHESTER SPANISH AND VISITORS CENTER

Hello faithful followers! The time has come for me to ship off to the empty sea. (Read it out loud...)

AND LET ME JUST SAY I AM STOKED.

So stoked, in fact, that I am slightly at a loss for words. Let's just say...

It's gonna be big.

And the best part, dear friends, is that it will all be documented on this here website! The Rochester mission is supposedly a pilot mission for blogging missionaries, but until we know for sure and all that, McKenna Talley shall be keeper of the blog as well as my facebook. Le address to write me at (which you should all consider doing at least once within the next 18 months) is thata way -->

and will be updated when applicable.

Uh...go team! And...bye!

I miss your face like hell

Put your dreams away for now. I won't see you for some time.

Having Had Loved - MY EP!

I am SO proud to present my first album! It's titled "Having Had Loved" and you may (and should) download it (for free) here.

A good friend of mine, Mike McClellan, recorded me, edited it, and added the bass and then vocals for "Step Lightly." I am eternally grateful for him! He is absolutely wonderful. You can check out his band, The Whits, here!

I haven't been this mad since May.

It's a good thing I'm headin out in two weeks cause I am really done with all of this. All of it. Everything.

Hello, my old heart. How have you been? How is it, being locked away? Don't you worry. In there, you're safe. And it's true you'll never beat, but you'll never break.

Abdication From Predestination

There is a man in South London right now who is busy and happy without me. But I will be true to him. He deserves that, and he's more than I ever hoped for.

Is it strange that growing up I expected to end up in an abusive relationship? It's true. I always assumed that it would be that way. Words can't express what a beautiful thing it is to feel that you've escaped that fate. I know that Austin would never hurt me. True, life sometimes throws curve balls. People change, and they have their own right to make their own decisions that affect us. There will be more times in my life that people let me down or purposefully hurt me. Nevertheless, I count my lucky stars that someone so gentle sees so much in me.

So much disappointing confusion of singular-plural agreement coming from a professor with a PhD.

Ay caray.