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i watched a rom-com every day for a week (opens the original)
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I’ve spent way too much of my life watching people fall in love on screen. I’ve read more romance books than anything else, and watching a rom-com is my default setting whenever things get stressful or boring or hopeless. No matter how many times people call them cheesy or predictable, that has never made me love them any less. Caring this much, though, has unfortunately turned me into their harshest critic. It’s all in good fun! Even when I’m ruthlessly picking apart the chemistry between two l
how to stop putting your life on hold (opens the original)
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I didn’t expect my twenties to involve this much waiting. Waiting to hear back from jobs, waiting for things to feel less daunting, waiting for the best time to finally take the leap. I thought this decade would feel like stepping straight into my life, not hovering outside of it, and it’s a weird state to be in, to feel constantly in-between things. I grew up an incurable optimist. Even when hopelessness creeps in and I feel directionless, I still look for the upside. Being (almost) post-grad i
my unofficial television awards (opens the original)
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What I love about the Emmys, and awards season in general, is that it gives you an excuse to take stock. Television has become so crowded that it’s easy to move straight from one show to the next without ever really stopping to consider what you actually loved. There’s always another series to start, another finale to catch up on, or another show everyone is suddenly talking about. Before we move on to the next season of everything, I thought I’d take advantage of the moment to look back at what
8 books to read when you feel like you've read everything (opens the original)
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When I started reading a lot, I noticed how much easier it is to fall into a reading slump. Everything starts to blur together. You desperately want to get lost in a story, but every single recommendation points right back to the same list of twenty-five titles you have already read, dropped halfway through, heard dissected to death, or left sitting on your bookshelf for years.To shake things up, I've pulled together eight books from my own reading history that genuinely worked for me, yet someh
the monthly guide: september (opens the original)
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September always makes me feel like I should be starting something. It might be the combination of the weather changing, summer winding down, and that old back-to-school feeling that brings a sense of possibility and excitement (and jitters).It’s my first September not going back to university, and I’ve been spiraling about that a little. So instead of letting the feeling eat at me, I’m reclaiming the parts of September I actually miss and making a little guide for the month: things to read and
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