My twenty-eighth birthday was last month (I know I’m really late posting this, but bare with me). I’m not a particularly huge birthday person, but I do enjoy taking time to reflect on my life, and all of the changes {big and little} that usually occur from birthday to birthday. Twenty Eight is nothing special, but it…
Overrated Reads | Volume No. 1
Happy Monday! I’m pretty excited, this past weekend I finally finished The Nightingale, and oh my goodness I couldn’t stop crying, it was incredibly beautiful and rich with emotions. Lately, I’ve been kind of a sucker for WWII Historical Fiction books, like this one that I finished the weekend prior. I also realized that I’m ahead of pace…
Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young
“If I could offer you one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it…” OK, let’s back up. Yesterday was one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days. Like jaw-dropping — this can not be happening to me — bad. And when days like that happen, I always turn to my absolute favorite piece…
Improv Graduation Show and (Even) More Life Lessons
The days leading up to last Wednesday night, were the most nerve racking days I’ve had in ages. OMG, Dara, WHY!? you’re probably dying to know, right? Well, I have been playing studying at DC Improv’s Comedy School since October. Currently enrolled in their Level 2 Improv Class, which at the end of the course has…. a graduation…
The Most Therapeutic Form of Journaling
Do You Keep a Journal? I love this question, and even more so, I love hearing peoples answers. On a chilly autumn evening in 2014, I attended a women-only journaling workshop. And it was amazing. We discussed the history of journaling, and the different ways people do it. Why we journal. How often. When we journal. What do we write…
Ten Sunday To-Do’s for the #BESTWEEKEVER
We all get that (mild) Sunday night depression. You know, the panicky realization that the weekend is winding down to a close, and tomorrow is, well, Monday. The start of a new week — chock-full of appointments, meetings, emails (soOooO many emails), chores, errands, and plain old hard work ahead of us. It’s overwhelming, yes. Over the years, I’ve…