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Autumn Auspices
I haven’t posted in five weeks, I know!! My six classes, two clubs, and writing associate job got the better of me this month. Since my life has mostly been consumed with work and not any glamorous tours of Europe lately, I’ll give you some recs of stuff I’ve been reading/watching in the last month: Books: Little Fires Everywhere by…
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I Believe Her
Much has happened this week and it’s difficult to find the words to articulate the sinking feeling I get when thinking about the Brett Kavanaugh nomination. “Entitled men have a remarkable ability to be oblivious to the damage they inflict,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote in his column this week. I recently re-read 1984, which contains many parallels…
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Twenty-Two
Hey, I don’t know about you…but I’m (not quite) feeling 22! 22 feels old to me, which is laughable, I know, but I’m still very much as unadult-like as I was years ago. I did, however, manage to drive around yesterday and blast Taylor Swift’s “22” to make me feel more twenty-two-ish. I thought about how the last birthday-themed Taylor…
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It’s a Good Day to be a Buckeye
Week 2 of classes is upon me! My last first day of school on the 21st was a strange mix of feelings. First of all, I was deeply missing the winding, cobblestoned walk to my London classrooms. I never took that walk for granted when I was there, and I hope I remember the route and its smells and its…
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Queen City Brews
Learning to love beer in Cincinnati
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Palmettos and Pine
I spent last week drifting through a childhood memory. My family and I went on vacation to Kiawah Island, South Carolina; a place my grandparents, then my parents, then all of us used to vacation every year. However, once my parents had my little brother and my grandparents moved to Florida in 2008, we stopped going and hadn’t been back…
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Five Minutes of British Art
This week’s random blog topic is a bit of an art history lesson! I’ve only recently taken one art history class, so I’m kind of a poser and can only tell you a little about a little but not a lot about a lot. I’m writing about art history today, though, because I visited the Cincinnati Art Museum this week…
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Life after London
Alright, a “couple weeks” blog hiatus turned into, like, a month and a half blog hiatus. But that’s ok. I’ve been busy working and reading and hanging with my friends and family, uninterrupted. I’m happy to get back to this, though, and remember what exactly I wrote about before this turned into a travel blog. But overall, life after London…
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France, Spain and Home Again
I got home on Wednesday, May 23rd. My last week in Europe feels like forever ago. Sam and I were pretty stressed for a few days, about a week and a half ago, when we got stuck in Lyon, France, because of train strikes. We were trying to get to Nice, but the trains stopped running for a few days,…
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Alpine Adventures
I’ll tell you what, the hills are definitely alive with the sound of music. Sam and I began our Eurailing adventure through Austria on Sunday. A Eurail Pass is a universal ticket for mostly all European trains. There are a bunch of different options, like single-country passes, 2-4 country passes, and 5+ country passes within a set amount of time.…
