Uhhhh, I cry. This seems like a pretty obvious answer, but I suppose there are plenty of people out there who don’t cry when they’re sad! On a spectrum that runs from “easy crier” to “hardly ever cries”, I definitely skew a little toward the “easy crier” end of things. This is particularly true if…
It’s one by Taylor Leonhardt, called, “Happy or Whatever“. I’d never heard of her until the most recent episode of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, where her song, “The Bridge” was featured as the closing tune. I liked the sound of it, so I looked her up, saw that, “Happy or Whatever” was…
I just finished Crying in H Mart, a memoir by Michelle Zauner, which mainly focuses on her relationship with her Korean mom. This summer, it seemed like I saw this book everywhere, so I put it on hold at the library, and it has taken until now for my copy to come in. Luckily, I…
Ooh, it’s nice I got this prompt in October because this, to me, is one of the best months of the year! What do I like about October? The weather! October is a month where we often don’t need to run either heat or air-conditioning. The summer humidity is not around as much, but you…
I read this one and smiled at the first thing that came to mind: go to bed. I just really like to go to bed. I have never, ever been a night owl, even in my teen years. (A shocking truth: I went to bed at 9:00 pm and got up at 5:00 a.m. for…
A little while back, reader Kristin commented on a post here and said she wished she was a person who could go through life really enjoying things; she said she thinks she’s too uptight to be very good at that. Kristin and I are virtual twins in a country mouse/city mouse way, so I resonated…
I really love personal stories. As you probably know, I’ve been on a medical memoir reading binge for the last few months. Memoirs in general really scratch my “personal story” itch, of course, because memoirs ARE a personal story! But inside these medical memoirs, my favorite parts are the patient stories. I love to read…
I don’t know if this is a universal experience, but it’s pretty consistent for me: when I am feeling really mad or really sad/discouraged, at that moment, I find myself thinking that I will feel this way forever. Like, “I will never calm down from this. I will never feel ok.” I feel pretty silly…
