the official start of summer?
College summers are strange. I have been out of school since April 25th at 12:00pm, but part of me feels like summer started just one week ago, when my three younger siblings got out of school and started their summer breaks. I also feel like I start summer tomorrow, when I begin the first day…
If You Wanna Go Far, You Gotta Go Far
The song, “You’re Gonna Go Far” was my introduction to Noah Kahan. As the oldest of four children about to fly 2,500 miles away to attend university in a different country after living in a small town my entire life, I guess you could say I felt a pretty powerful connection to this song. I…
Hello my Name is: Nice to Meet You
“Ready or Not: by Bridget Mendler was one of my first favorite songs. A favorite song can be such a marker of a time in your life. It can be a reminder of a person. It can have an unbreakable link to a memory. I never escaped the memory of this song. It started with…
Chocolate Chips: the Key Ingredient to Everything
A bag of chocolate chips. A massive 72 ounce bright yellow Chip-it bag intended to sit in your pantry for that rainy day when you decide to make chocolate chip cookies or brownies. This is where it always begins. We are sitting at the dining room table. Our plates are empty but our conversation is…
Bagels and Coffee: Soaking in the Consistency
Walking down the hall from my room to the living room, I already know what I am about to encounter. I skip (in reality I’m walking, but I’m skipping emotionally) down the hall and turn the corner to find my roommate doing a crossword at our dining room table. She has an iced coffee in…
Scrapbooking in Silence: Looking Back on Second Year
I always start out with no plan (not in life, in scrapbooking). Let’s be clear that in life, I will draft out a five word text to someone in my notes app for ten minutes before I even think about sending it. But in the creative realm, I tend to go in without a clear-cut…