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!

  • February 12th

    Two years ago today, I was a fourteen-year-old freshman in high school with a broken heart. My then boyfriend dumped me two days before Valentine’s Day. That’s kind of a shitty way to have your heart broken for the first time, is it not? After what I often referred to as “that dreadful day in Read more

  • Constantly laughing-out-loud

    I’m on chapter two, now. The more I read, the more I fall for this book. We’ve been spending a lot of time together lately and I find myself smiling and laughing constantly. The shelf where he resides is so close by and perfect; I still cannot believe that I never knew this before. We Read more

  • The first chapter

    My entire life, I have hated to think of the theme of stories, novels and poems that I’ve read. I like to think that there is no specific reason, and that works can’t always be put into a category. This is why I roll my eyes at themes we have to talk about in school, Read more

  • The luckiest girl in the world

    I have changed my whole outlook on life. To quote Good Charlotte, “I just wanna live,” and I don’t really care about the things that they say or what happens to me. I’m just going to live. This week, I have been a busy bee. I watched The Great Mouse Detective, The Rescuers, The Rescuers Read more

  • They’re trying to kill me

    So, it probably wasn’t smart of me to take up knitting. Or wait, let me back up. It probably wasn’t smart of my family to get two kittens for Christmas barely a month after I had started knitting. My yarn stayed where I left it for that blissful month, then, after Christmas, I found my Read more

  • Believing ain’t easy

    I almost started crying when I entered the room with the high ceilings. I could still hear our laughter and heavy breathing as we darted in and out of the rows of pews. Fresh in my mind was the vision of us kids running around in the darkness while our parents socialized in the next Read more