I am a twenty-something wife and stepmom. I am a perpetual student, a writer, a pet lover, and a total nerd. My passions include but are not limited to: 18th & 19th century Russian literature, American transcendentalism, traveling, dreaming about traveling, Walt Whitman, existentialism, and Italian Greyhounds. I write about all of these parts of me in a continual attempt to keep myself moderately sane (moderately, because I firmly believe that everyone needs to be a little crazy).