Why is it that we ignore so much of the advice given to us? Time and time again people told me that reading was going to make me a better writer and while I believed them, I never changed anything about myself to maximize its impact on me. I read without purpose, energy, goals... I was very …
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Closing Out 2014’s Tab
My last post was one of my most read. I don't know if that's because it was pity clicks for my birthday, my first post in a long time, or that you genuinely thought it was funny...But since I don't have my own team of researchers, I'm going to bank on the latter and format …
27 Lessons for My 27th Birthday
A millennial like myself MUST do a birthday blog post replete with GIFs. It is a requirement every year until I turn 30. We can thank Buzzfeed and Thought Catalog for this shit. The nice part of it is I can take a little break from discussing authors and writing habits and lighten up a …
My First Journal (And Why I Won’t Burn It)
I read an article, or conversation, in the last issue of Poets and Writers I received. It was three poets discussing the freedom of destroying old journals and why they had destroyed their own. As I read the article, I felt so sad. I was sad because they had destroyed all their keepsakes from another age, and …
Curating the Bookshelf
In most aspects of my life, I have outgrown the idea of quantity over quality. I focus on how nice my things are and less on how many of them there are. The only place that hasn't been touched with my new grown-up way of looking at life is my bookshelf. It's just too crowded. This picture …
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