With the Barkers and the Colored Balloons

This will be a blog about growing up. About navigating a life that has outgrown childhood but hasn't yet reached the security of adulthood. That's why I chose to title the blog after Neil Young's melancholy song about leaving a happy childhood behind before being ready. I feel like I have been preparing my whole life to be independent, but when I got out of college, I had so many options that I felt paralyzed to do anything at all. I wanted to get back to the security of school, of having a plan. But that's part of becoming an adult, isn't it? Creating your own plan and executing it as you feel is right.

My plan is to write about what it is like to be a twenty-five year old, part of the generation deemed: entitled, apathetic, glued to their screens. How are we finding jobs? How do we view marriage? What do we care about? I cannot speak for a generation as a whole, but I want to at least share the stories I have: the career struggles, foodie exploits, research topics, and culture of life as a millennial.