Inexplicably happy because there was actually some gorgeous sun out today! (Incidentally, it's also a good hair day, but I'd rather not attribute my emotional wellbeing to something so trivial, you know, for my ego's sake.) It was the first bit of sunshine and warmth—relatively speaking—in months; ... Read More
On Love + Valentine’s Day
I don't claim to be an expert on love and relationships; in fact, I barely know a thing about it. Scratch that: I don't know a thing about it, except that it's a word—a pretty loaded one at that—that the Oxford dictionary defines as "an intense feeling of deep affection," and one that I use only in ... Read More
Snow Days, From the Perspective of an Adult
...with "adult" used loosely here, of course. I once read that we're not fully actualized as our "adult" selves until the age of 25—a fact I'd rather not expose to my mother knowing full well that doing so just might bite me in the ass come time during our next argument (hi, Mom). But hey—I do it ... Read More