I’ve loved Peter Pan since I was a kid. I believed that one day Peter Pan would come to my window and ask me to fly with him to Neverland. To a place where I never grow up and never come back. The thing is, I was never afraid to grow up. Even now growing …
This is my list of the worst books of 2019. For the full list you can check out my video on Youtube. Honorable Mentions: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez Pride by Ibi Zoboi Top Ten Worst Books of 2019: 10. The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson 9. Waiting for …
This is my list of the best books of 2019. For the full list, you can check out my video on Youtube where I talk about them while I make Creme Brulee. Honorable Mentions: Broken Beautiful Hearts by Kami Garcia The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang …
I keep imagining an alternate world where I’ve run away. I live in an undisclosed small town in some east coast state. I work in a bookshop or even a bakery. I have two or three close friends that I hang out with and talk to all the time. We genuinely care about each other …
At the start of the 2010s, I was 10 years old and at the start of the 2020s, I am 20 years old. I genuinely can’t remember what happened in 2010 so I can’t really reflect back on it. Although I did grow up a lot and have all of my teen years in this …
Reflecting on this past year of being 19 in my last hour and on my last day of being in my teenage years, here are 19 things that I have learned at 19: I push people away when they get too close and that’s not okay. There are some things you can share with others …
At first love was just something that never happened, Another what if? But then it grew. As everyone around me fell in love or chose to avoid it I longed for it. When you’re a child A kiss is just a kiss The older you get the more meaning it has It starts to represent …
Why do I let you make me feel like shit? When you get angry or upset with me it’s never a fight. You give me the silent treatment And I’m left trying to figure out what I did to wrong you. I try to understand how this escalated Meanwhile, I know that I can’t ask …
Recently, I started going to this book club with my mother. The book club features a group of older, Mormon women with whom I have nothing in common. Our last book was Circe by Madeline Miller. The main topic of conversation was the book’s comments on aging. Circe admires how humans can age and get …
On my last day and in my last hour of being 18, here are 18 things that I have learned being 18: It is okay to enjoy being around other people, you do not always have to be alone. Building and maintaining friendships is just as important as building a relationship with yourself. Your …