It is November and that means NaNoWriMo has come around once more. It has been eleven years since I participated in my first NaNo in 2010, and I like to think I have improved a great deal as a writer since that truly egregious novel that I wrote as a teenager and that hopefully never […]
One of the first things I thought to myself when I decided to let this blog loose was: okay Talia, what are you going to write about now? What do the people want to hear? After thinking about it for a while, I decided that my first approach would just be to start with telling […]
Last Friday evening I pressed send on an email and realized that I was done. Two days before I had completed my last day working at Brandeis’ Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and turned in my work computer. Tomorrow I’ll pick up my regalia, clean out my gym locker, and return all the books […]
This post originated as a personal essay written for my Creative Nonfiction course in Spring of 2017. The Tale of Celeste I want you to think about a young girl named Celeste. She is your typical high school senior, and recently accepted to her college of choice. She went to the admitted students day, submitted […]