If You Are Going To Dream Anyway Then Dream BIG

In a huddled mass of terrified agricultural journalism students, we discussed our futures. Just what are we going to do with our lives?

In this job market, some say that you should not hold out for your dream job. But as one of my professors, Kevin Wise, pointed out if you don't have a dream job how will you ever make steps to get there?

"If you haven't thought of your dream job, you should have last Wednesday," he said.

This is true because goals are just dreams with deadlines--something that I am very familiar with as a journalism student.

So I am going to dream big hoping that maybe one day I will be the one who designed the signs at Denver, not just the person standing in front of them.

Roots and Wings

Lord Byron said, "But words are things, small drops of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions THINK."

It is startling to think of words that way but it is so very true. Just a single word can make someone smile, laugh or even cry. I hope to use mine to share with others the wonderfulness that is my life as a modern day farmer's daughter trying to make it in the big world. (When I say big I mean a town of more than 1,000 people with a stop light.)

Growing up on a small family farm, showing cattle and judging livestock have all given me a unique perspective to life, one that I want to share with you. Keep up with me as I enjoy my last year of college, travel across the country on the University's Livestock Judging Team, and transition into my career. And through it all I hope to grow wings to take me far and sprout roots that will keep me planted to my family farm values for years to come.

So join me as I get both my roots and wings, and if I write one word that makes you stop and think this blog will be a success.