BookTubeAThon TBR 2018 & VIDEO!

Hello my dear!

I am so incredibly psyched to be participating in the BookTubeAThon this year! For those of you who haven’t been introduced to this wonderful event, it is an annual week-long readathon hosted by the lovely Ariel Bissett (https://www.youtube.com/user/ArielBissett).

Summer Bucket List: 22 Things to Do in the Sun

For the majority of my life, I lived in Alaska, the land of eternal darkness in the winter and eternal daylight in the summer. 

VIDEO: Massive Summer Book Haul!

I'm just popping in with a quick announcement for my newest YouTube video!

If you are interested in seeing me talk about my ridiculously large pile(s) of new books as much as I loved buying them, check it out below!

Some Featured Books:

• Still Life with Tornado
• The Shadow of the Wind
• Like a Mother
• Grasshopper Jungle
• ...plus a few more...okay, maybe more than a few more...

The Art of Buying Yourself Flowers: Stop Outsourcing Your Joy and Start Creating Your Own Happiness

Recently, I have found myself getting caught up in deriving my happiness from the people closest to me. 

When it works, this can be lovely. 

Travel to Thailand Part 2: One Fruit Lover's Guide to Bangkok Eateries

Hello darlings, I’m popping in today with a quick post about my favorite places to eat out in Bangkok. Bangkok as a city is many things, crowded and overrun with reckless kamikaze-esque motorbike riders for one. As a city known for its street food, there is no shortage of options as far as eating is concerned.

Kintsugi: Stronger and More Beautiful in the Broken Places

A bowl, beautiful, cyclic, whole, slips through fumbling fingers, hits the floor, breaks in two or three or seven. No longer perfect. Broken. 

A girl, beautiful, rounded, whole, slips through her loved ones’ grasping fingers, shattering on the sharp edges of her insecurities, of the world’s expectations, of the rejection of another. No longer perfect. Broken.

on being a writer who hates to write: creativity as an imperative

Hello darling, let me introduce myself.

I am a writer. This is as much an irremovable and conflict-filled facet of my identity as the tattoos I don’t like quite as much now or the fact that I was an indoor-favoring, autumn-lover raised in Alaska. I am a writer. This is me. However (there’s always a ‘but,’ isn’t there?), I typically do not enjoy the process of writing. 

40 ways to lift your mood

Hello my dear. 

            Not every day is a good day. 

Not every moment is a good moment. 

Top 5 Self-Empowerment Books for Women

Hello my dear,

There are many things that I adore in life; the short list most definitely includes reading, practicing self-care, and learning. 

Am I a Real Yogi? Musings on feelings of inadequacy and connection

Hello darling! 

Today I want to talk about yoga. Yoga has been a regular part of my life for several years now. I even have plans to take a yoga teacher training within the next year (hooray!). Despite that, I still sometimes feel… a bit like an imposter. 

Green Goddess Smoothie

Hello darling,

In my ongoing search for the fountain of youth (aka, amazing health and boundless energy, and to be entirely open, a beautiful figure), I have had serious periods of smoothie-ing.

confessions of a not-quite vegan

I have a confession to make; are you ready? Here goes…

I’m not actually vegan*.

Adopting Plant Children 101: Mental Health, Dewy Skin, and Tips for Not Killing Your New Plants

Hello my dear,

Green is the new black, at least, as far as thumbs are concerned.

Travel to Thailand Part 1: Lessons on Sunburns, Speedboats, and Compatibility

     Existing in a liminal place between graduating college and moving to a new state to start my fancy new adult life (how naïve I was), I lost hours,

          days, 

               weeks. 

     Graduation happened, then Christmas, but… What did I do with the first three weeks of January? I honestly can’t recall.

Summer Reading List

a poem, in fridge magnets

a poem, composed spontaneously in a wood-craft museum in a random town in the middle of a ten-day road trip with my ex-boyfriend turned dearest friend. oh, life.