Mission accomplished! My goal this year was to hit a 200 Discovery Score, and today I woke up to find I'd finally made it.

There's still room to grow, though. How much further do you think I could push my DS this year?

Woah, that's impressive! 😂 We have the same goal.

I'm currently at 122. Let's see where things end up before the end of the year. Wishing you 250 and beyond, champ! 🚀

when's the last time you asked for something and got more than you asked for? i'll go first!

"she's tiny, but she's a spitfire!"

that's what Linda Nell Cooper, the chairman of our theater department and the director of the show i was in, said about me after that day. here's what she was talking about. we were doing Parade at Liberty University, and felt like nobody knew about it. our department had been having the same frustrating conversation for a while: convocation announcements didn't really make room for theater shows. my professor brought it up in class. i sat in those complicated conversations. everyone agreed it was a problem, and nobody had a way in. then i ended up in a meeting with David Nassar, our campus pastor, about something completely unrelated. when we finished, i had a window to ask one question, so i asked it: who's the right person to talk to about getting our show into the convocation announcements? he didn't give me a name. he said, "you can come up and do the announcement yourself."

i said, "huh?" he said, "come tomorrow. you'll be backstage, have breakfast with us, do the announcement, and then stay on stage with us for convocation." the guest that day was Tasha Cobbs! (i was & am i fan of her music so WHAT a treat to meet her like huh? 😭) so the next...