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Seattle: You Keep Calling Me Back
I love writing recaps of trips I’ve taken, and this one was no exception. There have been a few over the years, including a previous post called “Welcome Home to Seattle.” It’s a city that fascinates me — it’s dive-y and grungy (for lack of a less cliche word), it has fun tourist spots (more Continue reading
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Books I read in 2024
I have to have something to read. Always. One of my friends reminded me recently that she’s seen me turn to reading a menu when there were no books to be found. “I could have given you a manual for a Cuisinart, and you would have read it,” she chided. Continue reading
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My idea of camping is staying at a Howard Johnson
Don’t forget the out-of-tune acoustic guitar so someone can stumble through shoddy renditions of Third Eye Blind songs around the campfire. Continue reading
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10 albums that shaped me
As an adolescent, when music truly started to come into my sphere of knowing, I was lucky to have young parents with excellent and profoundly varied music taste. Listening to music with them in the car or at home wasn’t just background noise or the radio, it was an experience. I made off with many Continue reading
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Jury Selection: The Olympics of Crazy
“Yes I understand that the minor traffic infraction you committed when you were 15 put you under great duress. Now will you be able to set that aside and listen to the evidence of this case?” Continue reading
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Luster: A Book Review of Sorts
For the last year I’ve been participating in a book club. Normally I’d roll my eyes at that kind of activity, but with our first book being “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite, paired with the boredom and loneliness of pandemic life, this book club couldn’t have been a better fit. A few Continue reading
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Adventures in Mendocino + Mormon Country
Over Thanksgiving I experienced the pure majesty of having six paid days off for a total of 10 calendar days away from the office, a.k.a. my kitchen table. The fruit stand that I work for shuts down for the full week of Thanksgiving, and we were gifted Monday 11/30 off as a thank you from Continue reading
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What it’s really like living in San Francisco
It’s been just over two years since I moved to the Bay Area from Atlanta. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how completely different it is out here and what it’s like living in San Francisco from a displaced Southerner’s perspective. It’s impossible to capture all the little details when someone from back east Continue reading
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Melissa Witt | A Tribute to the Gold Standard of Friends
Yesterday I stood at the gravesite at Rest Haven Memorial Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky in the pouring rain and said goodbye to one of the dearest people that I’ve ever had the privilege of calling a friend. Continue reading
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Art Review of Rene Magritte: Something’s Not Quite Right
I’ve always been fascinated by the strange and subversive, so when I began to learn about Surrealism in art school, I was hooked. I pored over Dali paintings, spent a semester studying Frida Kahlo and fell in love with the beautifully executed, yet off-kilter work of Rene Magritte. Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was a Belgian surrealist Continue reading
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