Hello.

You can call me Magdalen Aithne [Anya] Arkwright, or Meggy for short.

I'm a 21-year-old senior at college, and I'm working on a degree in English, minoring in Multimedia.

Blogs I follow!

A. Kenney
Astronomy in Reverse
Be Brave
Books, Roses, and Wine - Oh my!
Camp Patton
Confessions of a Seamstress
Ellen Gustafson
Follow the Light
A Free Mind
Optimistic Octopus
Silent Musings
Suspended in Her Jar
The Starving Inspired
These Adventurers

About the Blog

I am twenty-one years old and I am Catholic.  I like gardening, I want to be a farmer, I want to have kids young, and I want to continue my education.  I am very interested in teaching but not so much in rising through a career.  It's not that I'm lazy – I have other dreams.  That's kind of unusual today.  But I believe there are more people out there like me.

I'm sharing to connect with you guys.  The ones who might be like me.

I think that being 21 in today's America, it seems a little backward to most people to want to work in the dirt and have physical work to do every day – rather than sit in a posh office and be called manager-on-the-way-to-CEO and get a great big salary.  But that's not for me.

I want to stand out.

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When did you start blogging?

I've been blogging since I was 14, and I've been writing for years before that.  Writing has been my lifelong passion.  I want to publish a novel - at least one - someday.  But in the meantime, I'm just trying to find the romance, the darkness, and the truth in life, and explore it in writing.  Sometimes I do a great job.  Sometimes I confuse the issue.

But I love blogging.  It allows me to be creative and share my thoughts with as much perfection or lack thereof as I have at any given time.

Go read my blog now!

What else do you like?

I like reading, cleaning, gardening, baking, cooking, babysitting, drawing, sewing, knitting, learning, and designing.  I like tea and hot chocolate, I'm getting to know coffee, and I love strawberry-rhubarb pie.

Where are you from?

I grew up in a small town in the boondocks of Massachusetts, and I dream of moving back into the boondocks one day.  But the term "boondocks" has always confused me.  To me, it sounds like I'm living on the edge of a swamp or something.  I'm from the sticks.  The backwoods.  A rural community.

What are your dreams?

I dream of forever studying literature – when I'm not farming or taking care of children.  I'm the sort of person with whom a lot of modern progressives will disagree, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

What should visitors to your blog know about you?

I am Catholic.  There.  I said it.  And whatever you yourself might believe, I welcome you.  Can I get you something to drink?  Hungry?  Common courtesy applies to all people.  I only require that you extend the same consideration to me and anyone else who visits.

I value knowledge, humility, and love.  But I make a lot of mistakes.  If anyone should disagree with me on anything, they have a right– nay, a duty to say so.