10/ 07/ 2016
One afternoon last week, I suddenly felt very panicked. The trigger? A voicemail from a blocked number on my phone. I was in the middle of a meeting and couldn’t let it go. Who could it be? So I racked my brain for the worst possible scenario.
I’d imagined it was the fire department informing me that I’d left my curling iron plugged in all day. There had been a fire. My apartment was destroyed along with my sweet cat Harlow (which is a really horrible thought!). It was cryptic, certainly, but it’s exactly where my mind went.
After looking up the make and model of my curling iron, I learned it automatically shut off. Logically, if there had been a fire, I would have heard before 4:30p. There truly was no need to panic.
But still, I couldn’t let it go.
09/ 18/ 2016
I’m a little behind on reviewing the six books I committed to reading over the summer. I simply haven’t made time to sit down and hash it out! I read three intense books, a couple lighter ones and another that’s nothing short of magical. So, to report back more efficiently, here’s a quick review on the last three novels on my list.
09/ 11/ 2016
I’ve never considered myself an outdoorsy sort of person. Instead, I preferred to look at nature from afar on my computer screen or in a book. I’d gone on a handful of hikes before—one in Costa Rica, a couple in Atlanta. These hikes were too hot, and the sunscreen had sweat off my face within 10 minutes. There were too many bugs and it rained the entire descent in Costa Rica. I wasn’t even a little bit comfortable.
When I decided to vacation in Seattle, a lot of people suggested adding hiking to the to do list. I thought, “why not?” Maybe hiking on the West Coast would be different.
08/ 28/ 2016
Bad Feminist is a book of essays written by Roxanne Gay. The title explains it all. Gay says she is a feminist, but often times a bad one. She listens to music with lyrics that are anti-woman and doesn’t desire to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. She says it best in her own words. The passage below appears in a slightly edited version of the introduction to her book on Buzzfeed:
“I disavowed feminism because I had no rational understanding of the movement. I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, “You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.” This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds. Anytime I remember how I once disavowed feminism, I am ashamed of my ignorance. I am ashamed of my fear because mostly the disavowal was grounded in the fear that I would be ostracized, that I would be seen as a troublemaker, that I would never be accepted by the mainstream.”
