It’s that time of the year again. The days are getting shorter and colder, Christmas music is playing everywhere, and the cacophonous leaf blowing that dominated the last two months has finally fallen silent. This winter feels very different than winters past. For starters, this is the first year my family isn’t doing anything special […]
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I arrived early and made my way over to the small group of people who had gathered behind the Hartford Capitol. Although the day had been unseasonably warm, the sun had begun to set, and the temperature had plummeted to the low forties. My mom had come with me, and we were each given a
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Well, the official tally is in, and according to my Goodreads bookshelf, I read 70 books this year! Considering I only just got back into reading regularly in 2021, I’m pretty pleased with that number—and I’m even more pleased with the fact that I’ve rekindled my love of reading after straying from it in high
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For many of us, fall symbolizes a time of change and letting go. For me, however, fall has historically conjured up intense feelings of sadness and stuckness. Every year for the last decade, when the days began to get shorter and the first hint of color appeared on the leaves, I’d feel a drastic dip
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Over the past several years, but especially in recent months, my life has been one, in the words of my therapist, AFGO (another f-ing growth opportunity) after another. While this constant change has felt utterly exhausting at times, it has taught me a lot about myself, what matters to me, and what I want to
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I am in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard. It’s a beautiful, high-sixties-degree day in late June with luminous rays of sunlight gleaming through my bedside window and a gentle breeze rustling the flourishing flora outside. I’m lying on my bed, on the final full day of my first vacation in what feels like forever, reading Susan Cain’s
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I recently wrote a blog post for Move for Mind, a mental health organization that I interned at over the summer, about what I’ve learned from my ongoing six-month-long injury. If you haven’t already checked it out, you can read it here. Being injured—and for such a long amount of time at that—was not on
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It’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and to honor my journey and the journey of the millions of other brave warriors who are currently battling or have battled an eating disorder, I want to write about a part of that journey that’s often overlooked: recovery. I find it rather shortsighted that in media portrayals, literature,
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2021 was a difficult year, but one good thing that came out of it was that I rediscovered my love of reading. Until high school, I loved reading. I was the kid who’d go through three, sometimes four books a week and was always on the lookout for a new story to sink my teeth into.
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For as long as I can remember, Thanksgiving has been my least favorite holiday. While those around me would eagerly anticipate the time spent with loved ones and the copious amounts of festive food, I’d secretly (and sometimes not-so-secretly) dread both. It’s not that I don’t love my extended family—I do very much—or that I
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