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
Tag: Mental Health
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
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
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
My Reading Struggles, White Whale Books, & God Emperor of Dune
It may or may not surprise you to know that I’m a lousy reader. I’ve always loved books, but I’ve always struggled with them too. Not with understanding them, but … Continue reading My Reading Struggles, White Whale Books, & God Emperor of Dune
Writer’s Block & Where Story Ideas Come From
One of the more persistent questions thrown at authors is “Where do you get your ideas from?”. So much so, in fact, that it’s become something of a point of … Continue reading Writer’s Block & Where Story Ideas Come From
Spring Semester 2022: Finding Fun Between the Deadlines
I had hoped to blog more than I have this year, but as predicted this site has been left untended and wilting in the wake of my book. When I … Continue reading Spring Semester 2022: Finding Fun Between the Deadlines
My First Week Living in Student Halls (Postgrad Edition)
When I didn’t get either of my preferences for student accommodation, I decided not to worry about it. So long as I had a place to sleep near campus, I … Continue reading My First Week Living in Student Halls (Postgrad Edition)
Why I Went Back to University 7 Years After Completing Undergrad
A few years ago, I wrote a somewhat zany post in which I explored the differences between the nightmares I have as an adult and the ones that plagued me … Continue reading Why I Went Back to University 7 Years After Completing Undergrad
Looking Back at the Past: The Yearning for Second Chances
If you could go back, would you? Or better yet- what would it mean to you to have a second chance at something? There’s something so compelling and enduring about … Continue reading Looking Back at the Past: The Yearning for Second Chances
Showing Faraway Friends Around My Home City
I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog over the past year how I haven’t gone out much since the COVID-19 pandemic. Whenever each lockdown was lifted, I kept on … Continue reading Showing Faraway Friends Around My Home City
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