Book Review: The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve read several other reviews of this novel that had me scratching my head. They gave the novel 1/2 stars for all the reasons I love this book. The…
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve read several other reviews of this novel that had me scratching my head. They gave the novel 1/2 stars for all the reasons I love this book. The…
There once was this time during the early summer months while I was living alone that I was at a healthy weight. I was on such a good track and felt so good. Then June happened, and somehow I…
Some days I have this moment where I wish someone could visually document my life for me. I want it candid and to capture everything going on. I took this a few weeks ago when there was only one person…
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I love summer so much. As much as I wish that I had a real job, I do not mind having whole days off during the week. How else would I be able to go horseback riding with my cousins…
I have a bunch of photos from the County Fair I want to edit and post, but I don’t have the patience right now to make them pretty. I want to be creative on my day off, and instead I…
I took Painting I this semester and had a good time. The commitment was rough and on some of my projects I wish I had more time to compose and finish them. The above piece was for our landscape assignment.…
I want to say so many things. I want to remember how much fun I had in June; I want to think about everything I accomplished. But…. There are a lot of factors that have led to this post: a swim…
“I’m sitting under the evening sky, listening to people chatter and children yell with delight. Classic feel good music blares through the speakers as the sun goes down and parking spots fill in at the drive-in.” I wrote this last Saturday…
So Father’s Day was a little rainy and overcast, but that didn’t stop us. Dad, John, and I got up and went to 7AM mass and went strawberry picking afterwards. It was great and Dad got to put fresh strawberries…
This is a thing? In an anthropology class last year we discussed the “problem with adolescence.” We talked about how only in America do girls go through the pink princess stage. Only here do we think that little girls “naturally”…
Summer, summer summer. Towards the end of my semester, I began hearing the “S” word in the back of my mind. It started low and quiet and got louder and more lovely as the days got brighter and warmer. Summer.…