millennial blog project

millennial blog project

I won’t sit idly by and watch my life pass before my eyes

A millennial’s coming-of-age story

My name is Emily and I’m 30 years old. I’ve been writing on this blog in fits and spurts since I was 14, originally as “Blackbyrd” on blackbyrd.wordpress.com. I’ve long been enamored by the written word and have scribbled poems and sonnets in countless notebooks since I was 7.

Today I’m a classically trained journalist who has built a successful career in corporate marketing. On this blog I write about my musings while traveling all over the world and riding my bike.

Welcome to my never-ending coming-of-age story.

Thanks for visiting!

  • Blackbyrd?

    You know how sometimes when you look at a word a lot or say a word aloud many times, it starts to look/sound funny? That’s what just happened to me. I typed in my blackbyrd domain, and the word “blackbyrd” just looked so strange to me. The story behind the name became fuzzy as well, Read more

  • Growing up

    I think I must be growing up. The other day, out of deep necessity, I cleaned out my closet. My closet shed a good fifty pounds when I dumped out clothing article after clothing article. I had clothes in there that I’ve had since seventh grade. Even though everything in there still fit me (in Read more

  • Love, to a middle school student (and some high schoolers)

    He asks her out via phone call (but it’s more likely that it was just a text). She says yes. She takes a quick break to open up Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, types in “www.facebook.com” and types in her email address (which she only has so that she can take part in social networking Read more

  • I hate everyone

    All I have to say is, I have seriously been enjoying this summer vacation so far. I don’t have to deal with the people that I pretend to like but secretly despise. There are a few I could name right now, but I won’t. I’m sick of the fake people. I’m sick of the divas Read more

  • I Think He’d Like Me

    When all hope has faded away and I am blind and cannot see lead me to my savior; I think He’d really like me. I’ll need that boost of esteem when I am there; finally free I’ll approach his throne with love and hope that He’ll like me. I’ll cross from world to world moving Read more

  • My explanation

    I recently read the book Burned by Ellen Hopkins. It’s brilliant. The two works I have read by her have been deeply personal and scary. And I’ve loved them. It is in Burned that I found a passage concerning the Big Guy upstairs that I think I could really live by. It’s simply beautiful. “‘God Read more