Isabel’s Journey - Because Life Ain’t Over Yet

I am currently knee-deep in an accidental Arts & Sciences research paper. I was doing some persona research: recently, I was inspired to upgrade my persona's outward appearance, which includes dress and hairstyles. And as I was researching, I stumbled across a very unique type of hairstyle that I want to incorporate into my persona. Since finding this, I took some notes to tie together all the threads that justify this hairstyle. I have shared very simple descriptions of what I have found to a few people, one of them being my Bestie, who is a Laurel (A master recognized for their support and participation in the Arts & Sciences in the SCA). My Bestie suggested this research could be turned into a very interesting A&S paper. And since that discussion, I have started writing my notes into a comprehensive research paper for A&S competition. Never before have I been so invested in sharing historical research in the SCA as I am now. I don't know if my paper works for...

I had just set my mind: Yes, I was going to keep strapping armor on. And I was going to keep pushing myself to explore this new sport - because I truly wanted to. After that Sunday of deciding to push myself, I decided to research ways to fight despite being afraid. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I already knew months before that I needed to change my mentality to start fighting - I've talked about it here before. But what I didn't realize was that there were a few different ways to view your mentality and view your fighting opponent: I remember when I was young (maybe 8 years old?), I was at a family function, where some of my uncles were throwing a football around. I wanted to try, so I asked them to throw it to me. They threw it to me, and I threw it back. It wasn't thrown with too much power (I've always had weak arms :/ ) so they threw it back, AT me - and I was hit by the ball. The hurt was so bad, and I was so mad that I got hurt, that I angrily threw the football back - and...