About Me

I’m Kayla.

I’m 21 years old, I’m a feminist, and I just graduated college.

This is me on my 20^th birthday.

Turning 20 was weird for me; my whole life 20 years old seemed so far away, and being in your 20s made you a legitimate adult who knew everything and who had everything together.

Unfortunately, that’s not how that works.

Adulthood doesn’t really come with an instruction manual: you just reach it and are let loose on the world to figure everything out on your own. Life doesn’t just hand you a serious relationship, a home and a career… as it turns out, a lot of those “standard-issue” pieces of life are optional, and for some people, they aren’t available at all.

So I’m stuck here trying to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing with my life.

Hopefully Growing Parsley will help provide some answers to the question of what growing up actually looks like, and maybe you’ll be able to resonate with some of my experiences. I believe that as a writer, it’s my responsibility to lend my voice to people in similar situations, so hopefully this blog will be insightful, honest, and perhaps revelatory about what it means to grow up.

For an explanation behind my choice of name, check out this post.

Thanks for visiting!