I’ve always liked making playlists. When I was younger, in the days before CDs, I remember having a pile of blank cassette tapes my dad got for me sitting on my desk. My boombox or walkman was always tuned to the local pop radio station. I’d sit there for a while just waiting for my favorite songs to come on, just so I could hit record and get them on…
I’ve always wanted to get into scrapbooking. It just seemed so fun from all the finished pages I’ve seen on various different blogs. I never really realized how time consuming scrapbook was; let alone expensive. You have to buy all of the embellishments then gather your pictures and papers and organized your layout with matching colors before you even begin to glue things down. People who scrapbook are way dedicated…
I’ve always liked looking up at the moon. Yet, for a while, I did take it for granted. When you’re a kid, you learn about the moon and the solar system and all the planets, but that’s pretty much it. You know that they exist and after that, you never really think about them ever again (unless of course, some really smart people say Pluto isn’t a planet anymore; then…
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2013)ISBN: 9780525426004 I finished this book awhile ago. Like, I ordered it from Barnes & Noble and it arrived the same day (a Thursday I believe) and I spent a few hours on Friday just reading the whole thing. I didn’t blog about it right away because there were so many feels that I couldn’t even think straight about it. I still can’t think straight…
“No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.” – Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
It’s safe to assume that everyone has heard of the Titanic. Whether the actual ship or the 1997 James Cameron movie based on the historical events of the ship’s ill-fated maiden voyage, everyone knows about it, especially with all the media hype it garnered last April due to the centennial of the ship’s sinking. My question though is why all the hype? I understand the 1997 movie plays a huge part it our collective cultural obsession with…
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson (1994)ISBN: 9780679744474 So, I recently finished Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. When I made my previous post about the opening lines of the novel, I had just begun rereading the book. I originally had to read it for my Contemporary British Novels class when I was in university and well, I read it but didn’t read it. You know what I mean right?…
Today marks the first day in which the Supreme Court will hear cases to legalize same-sex marriage. I know this is a touchy subject, but it’s one that permeates through today’s society. Like any civil rights movement, LGBT movement has begun and will stay around until long after all of their rights are granted to them in the federal government. Same-sex marriage is just one right that’s being fought for and a…
I’ve encountered this quote, saying, proverb, whatever it so happens to be, a lot recently. Course, it was always phrased differently, either rearranged or with words substituted for other words, but all the meanings were the same: you have to love yourself first before you can love others. I personally don’t know how true this is, but I can see how it may be, given my observations of the human…
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days–three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” – John Keats I suppose what Keats is saying here is what I think a lot of people say: You discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Or maybe that was just…
“There’s lots of good fish in the sea…maybe…but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover Taking the cliche and turning it on its head to reveal a truth: there maybe plenty of fish in the sea, but most of those fish won’t…
Every day should be Valentine’s Day. I said this to my brother yesterday and he asked me why I think that. It’s pretty simple really. Why do we as a society allot just one day out of the 365 days of a year to love? The phrase “I Love You” seems foolish, cliched and out of place most of the time when we say it, and yet, it’s somehow not…
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