music

December 20, 2021

Feeling Good

Birds flying high, you know how I feel
I have a very intense fear of heights. But the thing about having a fear of heights, is that having a fear of heights is not about the fear of being up high, it is about the fear of falling. It is the fear of having nothing to catch you. I have dreams of being in the body of a bird, of flying, and in those dreams I have no fear of falling because I will catch myself on my wings. It is the plummeting crash that I fear. The view from up high is amazing, the fear is the potential to fall.

May 4, 2021

Poetry and Music

Poetry, Reflection, Writing

I’ve been a poet and a writer all my life. Growing up I wrote poems in journals, on post-it notes, in thank-you cards and letters. Words sprawled across pages, some of them unbearably cheesy, corny, angsty, particularly as I got to high school. For years I have been honing my craft, and I continue to […]

June 19, 2019

Bastille’s ‘Doom Days’ is About ‘Good Omens’ and You’re Not Going to Convince Me Otherwise

Fandom

I barely watch TV and I only listen to two bands, which means that when I do get into a series or a musical artist I tend to get obsessed to a level that some might find, quite frankly, alarming. Since one of those two bands is Bastille, naturally I was all over their new album like flies to honey when it dropped last week. Coincidentally, this was around the time that I got around to finally finishing up Good Omens and by virtue of consuming these two media side by side I noticed some startling connections.

April 26, 2019

Book Review: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Book Review

Daisy Jones & The Six is an incredibly fast-paced and immersive experience. This is because the world described within is so familiar, yet distinct from our own. I was a few decades away from being born in the seventies, when the events of this book take place, but the rich cultural imagination that I found […]

February 8, 2019

Book Review: The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles

Book Review

Every second I spent reading The Air You Breathe was one I spent feeling like I had a breath caught in my throat. Finding the words to describe why and how I loved this book is a struggle, but I’ll do my best. 😘 I’ll start with the narrator, Dores, who at age 95, recounts […]

July 3, 2018

Strategies to Combat Sleeplessness

Advice

Sleep and I have a love-hate relationship, in that I love sleep, and sleep hates me. Sometimes my brain just refuses to shut off, no matter how tired my body is, and so I draft blog posts at 1:23am that include a list of tactics for helping one fall asleep: Piano music on Pandora. This […]

June 19, 2018

Book Review: Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

Book Review

From the first line about Monday mornings and having an existential crisis I just knew that I was going to love Noteworthy by Riley Redgate. The premise of what is now my new favorite YA novel is that Jordan Sun, a student at the fictional Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts, has been rejected […]

June 2, 2017

On Poetry and Translation

Reflection

I think that poetry is a beautiful and important part of our history. Poetry allows us to express our thoughts and feelings in a therapeutic and elegant way. Poetry is important because it presents a way for people to connect with one another in with deeper expression than with prose. For me, the most important […]