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!

  • I have now been to a beach

    For the past few years, I have been complaining about how I have never been to the beach. Friends have promised to take me, but, alas, their promises were not kept. I remained a beach virgin. Until today. We had a cross-country meet today at a State Park near the lake. I swore that I Read more

  • A la Poe

    Let me shut my tired eyes and see the slumber curtains rise where my dreams are greeted by the light. Many actors performing around my dreams that are swarming, waiting for the morning, wishing to bid “adieu” to the night. Acting out my life story, wishing to bid “adieu” to the night. One man to Read more

  • Just don’t

    When he waits for you so you can walk down the hallway together, don’t go to him. Ignore him, stick your nose up in the air, and walk on by. Act like a stuck-up snob and don’t give him the time of day, and he will come crawling to you. You’re the puppeteer, he’s the Read more

  • School

    It seems to me like summer never even happened. Now that I am in the day-to-day “school” routine, everything is back to normal. My iPod (PANDORA!!!) sings me the song I picked out the night before at around 5:45 every morning, and then I wait for the playlist to run out before I get up Read more

  • Two left feet…? Or…?

    Musical rehearsals at my school have begun. This year our production is going to be Aida, and is definitely a lot more challenging than the show we put on last year (High School Musical). I got called back to try out for the lead (Aida), but one of my good friends got it over me. Read more

  • Soaked to the bone

    School started a few days ago, and despite my mourning of the end of summer, I think that it will actually be okay. This week it has been all about football. Football this. Football that. Football football football. The cheerleaders wore their “cute” little uniforms to school today, and pranced around with blue and white Read more