Disclaimer: This essay is purely a work of introspection, observation, and personal opinion. Nothing stated within it should be taken as fact, but as one girl’s empirical analysis of her own beliefs and the behaviors of those around her. My fascination with the width of human diversity runs very deep–…
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Crack Open a Corona: Dealing With Pandemic Stress
Everyone knows about it, without it needing to be said. On the street, in lines at stores, and essentially everywhere in the world, people keep their distance, trying not to make a big deal of the underlying feeling everyone seems to share: fear. Needless to say, we are in the…
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Reconciling Joy & Productivity
I sleep in late, another day Oh what a wonder Oh what a waste It’s a Monday, it’s so mundane What exciting things Will happen today? Avant Gardener – Courtney Barnett Lately, I’ve been trying to work on my ever-looming novel concept. The seed for this concept was germinated in…
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Reflection on a Rainy Afternoon
In the first few months of 2019, had intended to post a nice “Year in Review,” chronicling how I spent 2018 and what it brought to me. For whatever reason, that review never came. Perhaps I was just too busy, or melancholy, treading the brambly path in the woods known…
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Summer’s End
As August comes to an end and the darker days and colder nights of autumn set in over New England, I find myself falling into a familiar sense of contentedness. I consider myself blessed to live in a place with four beautiful seasons, but the fall has always been my…