I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I never have; it simply isn’t something I believe in, or the way I like to look at goals and making changes. The closest I come to resolutions might be the reading goal I set on Goodreads each year.
That said, at the beginning of 2019, I found myself thinking about creative activities and how much I have not been writing and taking photos recently. In an effort to take photos again - and to be really excited about it - I ended up picking up my film camera for the first time in years (5 or 6 years, I think) and buying some new rolls of film. I sporadically took photos in March and then got the roll developed in early April.
Read MoreWhile home in Virginia last spring, I went back to the Renwick Gallery, where the exhibit taking over the building at the time was No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man. The exhibit featured some of the large art installations from Burning Man, bringing the creativity of the festival to DC. This tapped into the Renwick’s recent focus on inventive use of color and light, as it did with this 2017 exhibit.
Read Morephone diary of an afternoon walk with my mom and brother at the end of 2018 — the battlefields near home, brisk and breezy air, cold winter sun setting on the fields.
Read MoreI've been back in New York - back from a few weeks at home after school ended - for a month now, and haven't had a chance to do much outside of my apartment, where I'm usually applying for jobs, watching The West Wing (as always), reading, or avoiding the cold. Otherwise, there has pretty much only been my usual time spent in the theatre district and uptown around Columbia. On Sunday, though, Meena and I hopped on a Metro North train from Grand Central.
Read More In 2017 I shocked myself by reading 100 books, despite a busy two semesters and three busy internships. This was the year that I fully kicked my reading slump and made sure I found more time to read, especially when I wasn't just on a break from school. Thankfully, audiobooks and the NYPL (and my internship at a publishing imprint) kept me reading throughout the spring and fall semesters, not just during the summer months. I also read so many wonderful books last year, so overall... a great reading year. Now, in 2018, I have another long, ambitious reading list to start out the year. I'm excited to pick up some of the newer books I missed last year, catch up on a few books that have been sitting on my shelves for a while, and get to read some upcoming releases that I've been awaiting for a long time (I'm dying to get my hands on Circe by Madeline Miller).
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