I love a new year, a fresh start, a clean slate. And making a new list! Last week I recapped my 18 Things in 2018, a list I created by recommendation of Gretchen Rubin and the Happier podcast. Today I’m sharing my new list for 2019, but first I want to dive a little deeper…
2018 was an exceptional year filled with lots of decision-making and adulthood things, but one thing that reminded me to live more playfully was my 18 Things in 2018 list. The idea of making such a list came to me last year from Gretchen Rubin and the Happier podcast. This would replace New Year’s resolutions in the…
With a week to go, this Christmas has already proven to be different from others. Not just because I’m gearing up for a 24-hour drive to the Midwest. Not because I don’t have a Christmas tree. Not because I haven’t baked one Christmas cookie. (Seriously, who have I become?) This Christmas feels especially different because I’ve…
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear My rating: 4 of 5 stars Atomic Habits is a great book to read this time of year as the majority of us start thinking about goals we want to achieve in 2019, actions we want to…
I turn to books for just about everything. Entertainment. Inspiration. Confidence. Improving my coffee game. Escape. And, perhaps most frequently, for learning my craft. That’s the beauty of books. No matter your trade, hobby or side gig, you can find a book on it. You can probably find several books on it. Plenty of people have already mastered…
Are you looking for the perfect holiday gift for the reader in your life? There’s no shortage of book-ish gifts out there – from book journals and literary-themed coffee mugs to e-readers and, of course, books. But what readers want most cannot be wrapped up and tie with a bow. Don’t get me wrong –…
Do you have something you try to go all out on for the holidays each year? What’s the thing you work yourself up about, dreaming for weeks about how epic it’s going to be, relentlessly pinning things to your Pinterest board and blowing your vision of it up into something unimaginable? The thing that you know…
In my early 20s when I lived on my own, I would order a large stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut every Sunday and eat the leftovers for lunch throughout the week. My idea of enjoying nature was laying on a raft in my apartment complex’s pool. Shopping for clothes, books, food or any consumer product…
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult My rating: 5 of 5 stars Being a highly sensitive person, I questioned for many chapters whether I could stay with this book through the end. I’m so glad I did. The book is told from the view of three narrators, Ruth – an African American nurse, Turk –…
If you’re a fellow lover of books, you know that a reading lull can have serious detrimental effects on your life. Without an escape to the land of fiction, how do you fall asleep at night? Without a motivating book or article to read, how do you make it through a weekday lunch? Without a…
