An undergraduate student who enjoys poetry, DND, and writing in general. Plenty of shenanigans and a whole lotta anxiety wrapped up in a 5'4" frame. Thanks for stopping by!
I’ve fallen behind on my challenge! Ah! In my defense though, I’ve been swamped between moving, finals, and starting a new job all at once. I’ll hopefully have a chance to get back on track once some things slow down a bit. I just wanted to keep y’all […]
This post is not spoiler-free, and neither are any in the Chick-Flick Movie Challenge. To learn more about Sweet Home Alabama, I recommend checking out its IMdB page. I had a feeling this one would be right up my alley. I was born and raised in the South […]
I caught the tidying bug! I finally dove into Marie Kondō’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014), and it was definitely worth experiencing. Of course, I heard all about the KonMari craze from social media and Netflix, and I read the reviews: the mostly good, the occasional […]
This post is not spoiler-free, and neither are any in the Chick-Flick Movie Challenge. To learn more about Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion, I recommend checking out its IMdB page. Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion was released in 1997 and directed by David Mirkin. Let’s dive right […]
Happy, happy Pride Month! To celebrate, I’m gonna spotlight some awesome queer poets and authors! First up is Walt Whitman! Whitman was known for kickstarting free verse and remains one of the most influential American poets in history! His well-known and first big collection, Leaves of Grass (1855), […]
This post is not spoiler-free, and neither are any in the Chick-Flick Movie Challenge. To learn more about Clueless I recommend checking out its IMdB page. Ugh, as if! For the second movie in my Chick-Flick Movie Challenge, I watched Clueless, which premiered summer 1995 and was directed […]
This post is not spoiler-free, and neither are any in the Chick-Flick Movie Challenge. To learn more about The Notebook, I recommend checking out its IMdB page. The Notebook was released in 2004 and directed by Nick Cassavetes. First impressions? Wow, I can see why everyone talks about […]
I’m a proud member of Her Campus, an online magazine by college women, for college women, and in my newsletter, I got a listicle (list, article, listicle, it’s a cute lil portmanteau) from June 3, 2017, called “The 30 Best Chick Flicks of All Time.” It was written […]
Being in college comes with a lot of challenges, many of which are financial. I remember moving into my first apartment a year ago and having a real fear that I wasn’t going to be able to afford to eat. I woefully looked at my collection of instant […]
Looking back on some of the books I’d been assigned in middle and high school, I realized that I didn’t fully appreciate a lot of them. They were usually classics, or harder-to-read books made to challenge us. We practiced noticing motifs, identifying themes, and writing thesis statements that […]
