How many of us spend hours strolling through websites and reading others’ opinions on matters that don’t concern us, but we do it anyway? Well, that’s me. Every morning I awake at the same time 4:30 am and check my social media, my news outlets, then my messages. Before you know it, its 6 am and now it’s time to get my day started.

However, sometimes I feel as though I’ve wasted a lot of time scrolling between websites when I could have gotten all of my laughs, opinions, local news updates in our community, and much more all in one place!

What are your goals for the blog?

In my blog, I plan to be unpredictable. I named it My AnonymousLEE because there are days when not even I understand my temperament or my train of thought. Those are the days that I write the most. I need to see my feelings and what I am experiencing on paper so that when I feel like this again, I know how to approach it and what methods I used to overcome it.

I have been documenting my thoughts and experiences, as well as my accomplishments and failures for years and will refer to them frequently in this blog.  I believe there are quite a few others that share the same sentiments as me, and it would be refreshing for them to know that there is someone else they can relate to. I want people to read and relate, even debate, as opposed to reading to condemn my opinions.

Who are you?

I am Danielle Codling most days. I am also still struggling to come to terms with who I truly am, even at 35. Some days I am a Public Relations Specialist, a strong-minded individual with clear and concise goals outlined for myself. On other days, I am a huge procrastinator and I am unable to even think about setting a goal much less accomplishing one. I am a very devoted mother of three and a wife, who has chosen to invest everything I have into my family, as I didn’t always feel as though I was very important to my own family growing up. I don’t have all the answers, and I can admit when I am wrong. It is my strongest attribute. Many can assure you, I laugh at myself more than anyone else laughs at me!

What influenced you to start the blog?

From the time I understood what a pencil and paper were, I wanted to put the two together to communicate what I was feeling. My voice is extremely soft at times, and it’s hard for me to be heard in large crowds. I have always felt as though no one was listening to me because they simply could not hear me. I would get into trouble often as a child because most of my journal entries were explicit and contained thoughts most children wouldn’t dare dream of putting on paper. However, I kept writing. I kept getting into trouble. I didn’t care. I had to get these thoughts out of my head and onto paper. I was influenced to create this blog to show myself what progress and dedication look like when you persevere and overcome internal battles one day at a time. I am not writing to become perfect, I am writing because I feel the need to be heard.