2021 was a year of ups and downs. This year, I experienced an exciting career change. I cooked delicious food, meditated, took long walks, and danced as much as I could! I focused my energy on finding my passion and reconnecting with my inner child. I made some amazing memories and have a lot to …
“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn’t work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.” Nora Ephron, Heartburn ’90s rom-coms are the ultimate comfort movies, perfect for snuggling up in the fall …
I am so excited to share my first Author Interview with the wonderful, Sara Sadik. It was such a joy to have a half hour to talk with Sara about her latest children’s book. The Extraordinary Pause follows a young girl as she processes the emotional and social impact of the global pandemic. With candid …
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“It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.” Madeline Miller, Circe At the end of last year, I read The Song of Achilles thus rejuvenating my love of Greek retellings. If you read my previous blog post, you’ll know I absolutely loved that book. …
“There would be bad days, there always would. But she’d collect these good days, each one illuminated, and string them together until they glowed brightly in her memory like Christmas lights in a mirrored room.” Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order I absolutely love when an underrated novel pleasantly surprises me. It captures the feeling …
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.” Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six Happy New Year! Although we have a long road ahead of us, it’s safe to say everyone is breathing a sigh of relief to …
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“It took more than one woman to do things differently. It took a world of them.” Etaf Rum, A Woman is No Man I picked up this book because the title, A Woman Is No Man, intrigued me. Initially, it just sounds like an outdated sentiment, feeling like an echo of the phrase “This is …
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“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.” Donna Tartt, The Secret History Dark …
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“‘Remember the green,’ he says. ‘When you see the growing plants, know we are all connected to each other and to the Earth.’” Remembering Green by Lisa Gammon Olson When I reflect on my childhood, I can still remember the excitement I felt walking into the library. I remember begging my mom to let me …
“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.” Emily …
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