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Fashioning a Summer [wardrobe]
Putting a pause on historical costuming! It’s getting sad to see all that hard work hanging up in a closet until I can find a weird event to wear them to. For now, I’ve moved on to regular clothes! I’ve stayed away from regular fashion design for years because it’s not actually any cheaper than just buying clothes at the…
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Costuming in Quarantine
By week two of quarantine, my niche interests started to emerge. It’s easy to obsess over things when you have a lot of free time and boundless creative energy. Since I’m not doing alterations work while small businesses are shut down, I’ve had some free time to actually sew for myself for the first time in a while. I’ve been…
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Some Words About Finding Direction
It’s been a weird couple months. To say the least. This is probably a prime time for me to write and post on here a lot, but I’ve either wanted to shut my brain off and just watch TV, or I’ve been really busy making masks for hospitals and friends and also doing content writing for several nonprofits. I feel…
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Three Years!
This blog is almost THREE years old! As a person who’s usually much more of a dreamer than a doer, I’m pretty proud of that. This little passion project was born out of my confusion and overwhelming sense of needing to “say something” after the knife attack at Ohio State in November 2016, but it’s come pretty far since then.…
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Twenty-Three
Today is my 23rd!! This is the first birthday of my life when I’m not in school. That feels rather odd. I’ve always thought September birthdays are the best because it’s just on the cusp of fall and I had the first birthday of the school year out of my friends. The parties and birthday celebrations were always the best…
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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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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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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…
