My Year in Review: 2025
2025 was quite a strange year—one that was difficult to make sense of as it was happening and which remains so in retrospect. Nothing especially bad happened to me, but … Continue reading My Year in Review: 2025
Category: Personal
Meeting My Younger Self for Coffee (After Jennae Cecelia)
Today I met my younger self for coffee. Little place with a high ceiling, layout that spreads in multiple irregular directions finishing in alcoves bathed in light. Sense of maximizing … Continue reading Meeting My Younger Self for Coffee (After Jennae Cecelia)
My Year in Review: 2024
For 2024’s Year in Review post, I’d like to trial a new format. Usually I write these posts in the style of an essay, with the aim being to tell … Continue reading My Year in Review: 2024
Three Hundred
On December 17th, 2017, I celebrated TumbleweedWrites’ 100th blog post and took the opportunity to reflect on the journey my site had been on up until that point. I always … Continue reading Three Hundred
Looking Back on My Twenties & Where They Took Me
I’ve always been someone with one foot in the past, drawn irresistibly by the pull of expired possibilities. No matter how enticing the present, I can never give myself to … Continue reading Looking Back on My Twenties & Where They Took Me
Going to Edinburgh to See Taylor Swift
As I took my seat on the plane, stowing my bulging carry-on between my legs, I asked myself a question: Does it feel real yet? It hadn’t felt real when … Continue reading Going to Edinburgh to See Taylor Swift
Reflections on Living in London
It’s crazy to think that I’ve lived in London for almost three years now. It seems like just yesterday it was 2019 and I was washing dishes for a living. … Continue reading Reflections on Living in London
My Year in Review: 2023
When the year began, I wasn’t sure what to expect from it. I was a little apprehensive, because 2022 had been so significant—so much had happened—and I figured that years … Continue reading My Year in Review: 2023
The Great Bookshop Crawl of 2023
The craziness that was the summer of 2022 saw an explosion in the phenomenon of bookshop crawling. For the uninitiated, a bookshop crawl is exactly what it sounds like. You … Continue reading The Great Bookshop Crawl of 2023
My Year in Review: 2022
In my review for 2019, I wrote that the year felt “inbetweeny”, with nothing of note happening- good or bad- that I would likely remember in the future. In contrast, … Continue reading My Year in Review: 2022
Bookish Fun with Bookish Friends Part 2: The KU Ripple Launch
May 10th, 2022. I’ve nearly regurgitated my morning coffee over my lap as a text comes in asking me to perform a reading at a book launch later that evening… … Continue reading Bookish Fun with Bookish Friends Part 2: The KU Ripple Launch
Bookish Fun with Bookish Friends Part 1: The 2022 London Book Fair
While my primary motivation for embarking on a Master’s Degree at Kingston University was to secure a career in the publishing industry, I also arrived in London with a secondary … Continue reading Bookish Fun with Bookish Friends Part 1: The 2022 London Book Fair
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