My Own Little Way: Hello!

Sometimes...you just have to take the plunge and start.

So many of my favorite things in one picture!

It's incredible what an odyssey this little blog has taken me on already, even before its inaugural post! I first started thinking about creating a blog about a year ago and created this one two months ago, but it has taken me until now to finally work up enough courage to post. It's either the perfectionist in me or all the internet safety lectures I received from my parents growing up, but there was something that terrified me about sharing my life online. (Well...terrifies me. But I'm working on it.)

I also worried that it might be a little egotistical to assume that strangers would want to read about my everyday life. But then I took a deep breath and remembered all of the blogs that have helped me grow so much over the past two years. They have encouraged me in my faith; they have inspired confidence. They have assured me that there are other young women who hope and dream and pray and love and live the way I do. And then I thought, if I could encourage someone else through my blog the way that these young women have done with theirs, then I ought to write.(Note: I've put links to these blogs--the blogs that mean so much to me and that inspire me to be my best self--on the 'Inspirational Places' page.)

Phew! That was a long introduction. Now a little about me. My name is Libby, and I am a young Catholic woman just trying to live out her faith in this crazy but beautiful world. I passionately love tea, Shakespeare, period drama, dresses, my family, my friends, and God. In May, I graduated from Harvard with a degree in English, and now I'm living and working in London teaching literature at a girls' school.

I don't always promise perfect coherence, but I do promise real posts from the heart. I hope you'll join me as I muse on my cooking triumphs and failures, my new life in London, my relationships, my hobbies and interests, and my faith.