Author: mareyuez3161

  • Camera Roll Shots: 1

    Camera Roll Shots: 1

    Pumpkin Patch: Live Oak Canyon

  • Fiction: Her Diary

    10-20-2026 A Stranger to Myself Hello diary, Everything has felt different since I’ve been awake. I feel different. Almost like someone new. I see my reflection but I don’t recognize myself. She’s a stranger to me. I’ve been remembering things differently. People tell me I’m wrong. These memories feel like a life I once lived.…

  • 8 Simple Ways I Manage Stress at Home

    How do you manage stress? View all responses Handling stress can be a challenge for me at times if not all the time. Here are a few things I do when I’m at home. Listen to music wearing my headphones or AirPods Coloring books, color pencils or markers Coffee and music Taking a walk outside…

  • Dear Younger Me: Hold Onto Your Story, Even the Hard Parts

    What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain? View all responses One thing I would say to myself would be to keep a hold on the diaries/journals. To keep the pictures and the drawings. All of them. The good and the bad. To keep evidence of…

  • Fiction: Her Diary

    Entry: 10-1-2026 The Day I Fainted Hello Diary, I’m not sure why I fainted or how. All I know is that I did. I was in a different plane of existence. Surrounded by darkness. Nothing and nobody in sight. An eerie silence. I can feel myself go off to a deep sleep like hibernation. But…

  • First Time at the Ocean: A Mother’s Unforgettable Pier Night

    First Time at the Ocean: A Mother’s Unforgettable Pier Night

    A moment in my life that’s made me feel truly alive, well more like little moments here and there. The most recent moment would have to be when I took my sons fishing at the Newport Pier. My youngest son, had the most innocent and sweetest reaction to the seeing the beach and the ocean…

  • Overcoming the Loss of Artistic Expression

    It’s not something I had wished I had started sooner, it’s more like I should have continued. Sketching, drawing, and coloring was something I was fond of doing in my spare time. I wasn’t the greatest but I was good at it. There was so much room and time for improvement. Then, I suppose I…

  • The Moment I Realized I Was in Love

    The Moment I Realized I Was in Love

    Have any of you been in love? I thought I was. I believed I’ve been in love before. Until I met him. And it felt like a scene from a movie. The romance kind.  When we first locked eyes, it seemed like time had slowed down. Voices became muted until there was silence. The type…

  • Battleship Iowa

    Battleship Iowa

    Something I have always been close by to but have never gotten the chance to visit. Maybe one day I’ll make the time for it. Looks beautiful from afar. I have always been fascinated by large ships.

  • What Makes You Nervous? A Roller Coaster of Emotions

    What Makes You Nervous? A Roller Coaster of Emotions

    It may sound common and relatable to others, but the things that make me nervous are meeting people, public speaking, and trying new things. I just get that feeling that one gets when waiting in line to go on a roller coaster. Excitement, nervous, and impeding doom. LOL. Thoughts rushing through my head and deciding…