“If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.” -Count Rostov in A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot lately. A Gentleman in Moscow is a novel that centers on Count Rostov, a Russian who has been placed under […]
After I had my first child and for many years after that, I did my best to stay on top of all of the news, every day. I felt a need to stay super-informed on everything that was going on in the world, I suppose out of an abundance of caution about what threats I
The day I thought I was dying began like any other day of my second grade year. I rode the bus to school, as always, and the day plodded along, like it always did, until the blessed reprieve of recess. The only thing out of the ordinary was that we had a substitute teacher that
I’ve read a few books about the process of writing that I have found helpful. The first one was The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I initially read the book because I wanted to get back into drawing, and this book came highly recommended. She focuses mostly on writing, and as I read the book