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20 Resolutions for 2020
I had 18 resolutions for 2018 and 19 resolutions for 2019, so can you really tell me that you weren’t expecting this? That said, this is the year I’m capping it, because coming up with 20 resolutions was actually pretty difficult. But here they are: Read 120 books (average 10 books per month) Improve my […]
Letting Go of 2019 and the End of a Decade
Part I: Personal Reflection 2019 came with so many changes in my life it makes me dizzy just to think about them. Most of these changes aren’t really things I want to talk about with the internet, since they pertain to my personal and private life, and not all of the stories are only mine […]
More Thoughts About Reading
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately, one book after the other, each word churning in my head rapidly after the one before it. Rarely do I read a book all the way through before I have the rabid need to switch to the next, not because I find the subject matter of one […]
Some Thoughts About Tarot Cards, Hogwarts Houses, and the Four Elements
I’ve been getting into Tarot cards lately, and I’ve always been into Harry Potter, so it is only natural that eventually I was going to combine the two. The first thing you need to understand is that when I decide to pick up a new hobby, I commit. So when I decided to take up […]
When Things Get Dark
[Meta Note] I don’t usually do content warnings because I don’t tend to have particularly heavy content, but fyi the main topic of this post is death including discussion of old age, cancer, and violence. Specific mention is made of the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting. This post also contains frank discussion of mental health […]
Talia Does All the Things: Finishing My Degree, New York in the Summertime, Harry Potter Trivia, Distractions, and Doctor Who
I’m not quite out of the woods yet, but I can almost see the light? I presented my capstone yesterday, had my last ever classes at Brandeis and went to Lavender graduation (which was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster all around) that made getting this blog post out in time less of a priority […]
On Self-Love: The Importance of Phrasing (A pre-Valentine’s Day Musing)
I really dislike the phrase “you can’t love someone else if you don’t love yourself.” Since when are loving one person and disliking another mutually exclusive from one another? That second person being oneself certainly complicates things a bit, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s entirely possible to love someone while disliking your […]
19 Resolutions for 2019
As the first day of 2019 comes to a close, I’m thinking about what I want to come of this year, Last year, I wrote up 18 Resolutions for 2018, and while I did not complete all of my goals, I don’t think I did too terribly. As I noted then, “New Year, New Me” […]
Some (Personal) Thoughts About 2018
I took a small break in the last two weeks from writing and posting in order that I may spend more time with those closest to me[1], but before 2018 ends, I would like to use this platform as an opportunity to muse over the journeys that I have undertaken and the paths that I […]
18 Resolutions for 2018
So it’s been a while. Last semester… last semester was tough for me. And while the holidays were a nice break, things were stressful in their own way. As it stands, I am wading in to the depths of my last semester as an undergraduate, and that is both terrifying and exciting. This semester I […]