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Seattle Travel Guide
My family recently took a Pacific Northwest trip to Seattle and Portland, one we’ve wanted to take for years but finally did this year since it’s our “last family vacation” before I move around the world for a while. Although my family may or may not have been annoyed at me a few times during this trip for dragging them…
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Wanting it All, According to Bourdain
“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential I’ve been spending most of my summer reading rather than writing, which is why you haven’t heard from me in almost two months. I decided to not buy new books (the horror!) and instead read books that have been sitting in the “someday”…
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What’s Next
I’m moving to Indonesia! I’ve inevitably told quite a few people about my post-grad plans already, but I want to say it again here to clarify and to explain what everything entails when I move to Java in September to teach English with the U.S. Peace Corps. Crazy, right?? It still sounds crazy to me, at least. So, what is…
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Thank You, Ohio State
Six weeks later and I finally post again! My life has been crazy with finals and finishing my internship and tutoring job. I graduate on Sunday (!!) in the Shoe with 12,000 other Buckeyes. Things are moving too quickly. The weather has gotten much nicer, but I’ve found myself avoiding one last walk around campus. That’ll make these last four…
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A Travel Guide to Southwest Florida
Greetings from sunny Cape Coral, Florida! I spent my last spring break (sad) not partying it up in Ft. Lauderdale but lounging by my grandparents’ pool, which is definitely alright with me. We actually packed a lot in last week, going to Ft. Myers, Sarasota, Naples, Pine Island, and Cayo Costa beach. With me and my sister Peyton as each…
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What I’ve Learned About Writing Lately
“People tend to look at successful writers who are getting their books published and maybe even doing well financially and think that they sit down at their desks every morning feeling like a million dollars . . . but this is just the fantasy of the uninitiated . . . Very few writers really know what they are doing until…
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Let’s Go Thrifting
Thrift shopping is THE BEST. Although I didn’t do much of it in high school (other than for when I costumed the school plays), the thrifting I’ve done in college has outgrown my fast fashion retail shopping pace. I now have dozens of unique, budget-friendly clothing pieces that I feel good about buying, wearing, and giving away again. I don’t…
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Columbus Brewery Guide
Much to my delight last semester, I discovered that Columbus does not have a shortage of microbreweries! If you remember from last summer, my friend Kevon and I set out to visit a bunch of Cincinnati breweries in order to become “beer people,” which you can read about here. Since Kevon lived in Columbus from August to December last year…
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What my English Major Means to Me
“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.” -Salman Rushdie I study words: how to read them, how to understand them, how to use them. As a…
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Best of 2018
2018 was a whirlwind. The first half of the year I was traveling around Europe, and the second half I was back at Ohio State drowning in essays. That’s why I haven’t written in a while! I’m glad to be back, though, and hope to actually keep a consistent writing schedule here during the next semester. To sum up my…
