Archive - Words, Searched

On endings, middles and beginnings

June, my birthday month, marks the end of the school year, the middle of the year and the start of summer. So naturally, I am in my feelings.

Jun 19 •

January 2025

Bookish Baking Journal (#1)

Cookies and Cream Cake Pops and For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Jan 29 •

Taking the sad with the happy

On how and why we mark milestones on the occasion of another beginning that feels less than hopeful

Jan 18 •

November 2024

When you need to get the hell out of your own head and stop worrying about the state of the world

Nov 17, 2024 •

July 2024

Everything ever after

On emotional journeys and processing Inside Out 2 and books about mental health

Jul 9, 2024 •

March 2024

Reading Renaissance

On reading ruts and finally emerging from them

Mar 31, 2024 •

May 2023

Who do you trust?

On giving—and taking—book recommendations from just about anyone

May 25, 2023 •

April 2023

Choosing Yourself

On the not so quiet part of quitting

Apr 25, 2023 •

Geographies of reading

On the places books (and life) take us

Apr 9, 2023 •

March 2023

When you take a break and a year goes by . . .

Mar 27, 2023 •

February 2022

Appreciating the kind of love stories we really need

Feb 19, 2022 •

January 2022

Comfort Reading

On fanfiction and why sometimes it's tiring to take on something new

Jan 23, 2022 •

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