“Think actively about transferring the full experience of eating a cookie from your mind, to mine.” Words that actually came out of my mouth today. And I paid for the experience.
Telepathic Cookie
Bitter/Sweet
Fun fact: My favorite word while making egg oil sauce (aka mayonnaise), was bullshit.
Sweet Sabotage
It's like my stomach is preparing to whine but knows it won’t do it any good. Like, you know when you need to cry but you refuse to let it go? Yeah, that’s it. My stomach is silently crying.
The Self-Starver
Giving up added sugar, grains and legumes, dairy and alcohol for a month. Wheeeeee! This rope made of bedsheets is fun to swing on!
The First Interview
It’s as if my second interviewer saw through me and said “Let me show you a reflection of what kind of writer you want to be.”
To Flowering Hearts and the Sweetness of Personal Growth
It’s a cliché, but one I’ve never fully grasped until today, when there’s just enough space to see that pattern and be certain I’m tired of the way it looks on me.
Journalistic Achievement Unlocked
Posted first Twitter thread. Subject: water conservation. Three mistakes. Three lessons: (1) Draft the threads to chart chronology. (2) Chart chronology correctly in draft to avoid a random, unnecessary digit in tweet, and (3) Chart chronology. Like, at all.
Unusual Brokeness
There’s something about expressing to people who don’t know you the best (or maybe at all) that you feel like a failure. It’s a certain, scary brand of vulnerability. You want to put your best foot forward, but sometimes that would mean inactivity because you feel you have exactly zero good feet.
Checking the Box(car Cove)
The blue skies dotted with whipped cream clouds are reflected in the glassy waters, and I am reminded how much I love the combination of canyon orange and sky blue.
First Camp Alone
“You should camp alone for the first time somewhere close to home, so if you get scared, you can come back,” my mom urged me. So, I headed 300 miles away to Las Vegas.
the RAMBLE 