Call up your best friend. Listen to your favorite songs from what feels like a lifetime ago (my feel-good playlist features all the songs I loved during my senior year of high school and freshman year of college; ah, a throwback to when I was young and naive). Curl up by a window with a cup of ... Read More
Five Things (5.1.15)
1. Last Saturday K. gave me a desk. Months ago (when we were still together) he told me he wanted to build me one. It was Valentine's Day weekend; it was a last hurrah, and this desk he said he wanted to build for me—the desk I needed because he believed I was a writer who deserved the space to ... Read More
How to Survive the Polar Vortex
It's about 9°F (and dropping) outside on this side of the world and I'm miserable. I love Valentine's Day and all, but it kills me that it's in February, a.k.a. the dead of winter. All I want is to look cute for my girlfriends and I (or man-friend, if I'm in the mood for a relationship), but this ... Read More