Holiday Gift Guide

How to Gift an Experience This Year

Black Friday weekend is upon us (and you know it’s the whole long weekend, not just Friday.) This means that a) the Christmas music you’ve been hearing is about to ramp up to an 11, and b) holiday shopping is entering full force.

Trying Things October

Trying Things: October

Every month this year, I’m trying something new and documenting what happens. Check out what I’ve done in past months here. In October, I made a deliberate effort to meditate every morning for 7 consecutive days. Here’s how that went. I have had good Octobers. Last October, I spent most of my weekends in New Hampshire …

Cliimbers on Grand Teton, Wyoming

How Dare You Accomplish Something

I find it both endearing and a little sad that we can’t promote our own work or tout our own successes, especially online, without being overly bashful about it. We must be self-denigrating and witty-but-also-I’m-serious-please-buy-this-slash-look-at-this-thing-I-made-or-did.

Trying Things September

Trying Things: September

Every month this year, I’m trying something new and documenting how it went. Check out what I’ve done in past months here. September saw me embracing my newfound freelance life (sort of) and attending my first film festival. Looking back on 9 months of 2018, I’ve been thinking about how this resolution has played out and …

An orange tent overlooking a picnic table in a campground in Maine

How to Wake Up Early

Many of my friends tell me that they are “unable” to sleep past a certain time in the morning. That time is usually something ridiculous, like 7 a.m., and probably the hallmark of a person with a standard sleep schedule – i.e., not me. I’m sorry, what? is my response to these friends. I don’t …

A Programming Note

Hello, internet friends! Taking a moment here to thank you for reading my blog (even if you just stumbled upon it today.) I also wanted to give you the heads up that starting this week, I will be pretty much out of commission when it comes to communicating with the outside world, as I will …

Trying Things May

Trying Things: May

Every month this year, I’m trying something new and documenting how it went. Check out what I’ve done in past months here. This month: experiencing the exhaustion of a 48-hour film festival, island camping, and a note about this summer. Hello from the other side of another month in 2018. (Is it just me, or is …

Trying Things April

Trying Things: April

Every month this year, I’m trying something new and documenting how it went. Check out what I’ve done in past months here. Ah, April. The month where the sun finally appears in New England, usually only for a day or two before it’s shrouded once again in rain and possibly snow. Despite the weird weather …

Trying Things: March

Remember that resolution I made back in January to try something new every month this year? March has been the easiest month so far. That’s what happens when you plan a week-long trip to the opposite coast, I guess. Before I went west, however, I knocked a new thing off the list at the beginning of this month: …