Title: Opposite of Always Author: Justin A. Reynolds Rating: 5/5 Stars Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Year Published: 2020 Start Date: August 1 End Date: August 4 Goodreads Summary: When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon …
Warning: This is going to be one of those long, personal and reflective posts. I’m (newly) 28 years old, and I’ve never been in love nor have I been in a real relationship. The closest I came to a relationship was right out of college. It was with a guy I was hooking up with …
Title: Clap When You Land Author: Elizabeth Acevedo Rating: 5/5 Stars Publisher: Harper Teen Year Published: 2020 Start Date: July 2 End Date: July 3 Goodreads Summary: Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, …
Background: This year, I committed myself to read more books. That might sound like a broad goal that will be hard to complete, but I'm determined, and I believe that I have done a decent job so far with four books now read — which is a big accomplishment for me. I decided that starting …
I participated in #BlackOutTuesday on Instagram on June 2 because, even as a Black person, I am not very outspoken about racial injustice or even my own experiences as a Black person. I, too, wanted to take time to reflect. To be honest, I am not very knowledgeable about the history of my people in …
Quarantine Day #30. Well, we are currently in a global pandemic. I'm not going to spend any time here explaining what the coronavirus is and the situation we're in here in the U.S. I'm just going to assume my audience is well aware. I've been working from home since March 18, which was coincidentally my …
About two years ago (I'm guessing), I decided to live a little, to try something new. Do something bold. Be vulnerable. I turned my read receipts on. I was inspired by a friend of mine who recently joined the iPhone family and purposefully left her read receipts ON. When I asked her why, she said …
For three years now, I have been a Sabbath School teacher at my church for the junior/youth class, roughly ages 11-14+. Not only is my class in the pre teen and early teen age group, it is also all girls. CRAZY! Naturally this experience has taught me a lot thus far, and I decided to …
It is amazing to me that I can even write this post, because just a few years ago I was complaining that there were not any boba places in my city. Soon after I found one just a mile or two from my house, I was excited and ordered a large only to be so …
By "it" I mean haven't updated this thing in months. This isn't the first time it's happened, and it certainly won't be the last. However, I am happy to report that while I have not kept up writing in this blog or in my personal journal as much as I would like, I still have …
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