writing, writing, writing

Writing.
Some people hate it.
Some people love it.
I've always loved it.
I don't really know when it started or how, but I absolutely love writing. I have a few guesses on how it started. Perhaps it was the fact that I loved was addicted to practicing my handwriting in elementary school and I got excited about the worksheets we got to use when we were learning cursive. When we took computer class in elementary, I loved typing. I more or less loved typing because I felt like I was 20, not 7.
Not to mention, I was pretty good at it.
I am guessing that since I practiced handwriting daily and wrote my name hundreds of times in a week to perfect the size and curvature, that's where it may have started. Pure guess.
I kept a diary. Granted I drew lots of hearts back then, I also wrote a lot. I kept a journal of every trip I went on with my family - which was quite a bit when I was growing up, thanks to my brother playing on a travelling baseball team. I kept a journal of my "love life" back then. I kept a journal of how school was going and what I thought I'd do with my life when I grew up. And yes, like all girls, I wrote notes to friends as we passed them from desk to desk.
Growing up, writing was fun. In middle school, high school and even college, writing was considered a chore, to most. Not me.
Sure, writing a book report about The Iliad and The Odyssey isn't the most fun thing to do as a sophomore in high school, but it sure beat taking a test about all those hard-to-understand books. Am I right?
In college, writing was different. It required multiple sources, multiple pages, and often times multiple days. 
But when the chances came to write about something that you enjoyed and a topic you picked, it was like glorified freedom. I still remember the day I picked my topic for my undergraduate thesis. I walked into Dr. Bunker's office at UNI (he was my thesis advisor), sat down and then he asked me what I want to do with my Sports Marketing degree and what I was passionate about. 
I told him my interests were in athlete social media, youth initiative in sport, and the equality of men and women in sport. With that said, my topic for my undergraduate thesis was going to be about athlete social media and I was going to showcase examples and research on how it helps and hurts athletes. I got started that week, granted my topic was picked a year before graduation.
After taking classes upon classes in my field during my time at Towson, I became quite opinionated about the pay for play idea in college athletics. I called Dr. Bunker and told him I was changing my topic and begged for approval. It didn't take much begging, he liked that idea better anyway. Well okay!
I wrote that bad boy like it was my baby. It's still the paper I am most proud of. Perhaps because it was the last college paper I ever wrote, or the fact that it was my choice and I could do what I wanted.
It was is MY thesis.
College ended and school was over. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled to be done. But I miss writing. No, I don't miss writing school papers for grades, I just miss writing in general. Thus, a blog was born. This blog was born.
Side note: While at UNI, I took Digital Advertising - a class where we had to have a blog that represented us either personally or professional. Mine was Sports and Social Media. I loved this project probably more than anyone that has ever taken the class. Sure, the tests kind of sucked and the group projects were nagging, but the blogging was fun for me! With my hard work and passion put into my blog, I was noticed by multiple people in the sports field and even had articles written about me in the Des Moines Register (see photos below) and on the UNI homepage (the photo above is what it was. Click the link for the article). All for a class assignment. So that was neat. :)