When faced with a difficult decision, we go straight to asking ourselves and others, "What should I do?" Well, I'm here to say, who cares what you should do, what do you want to do? What would make you the happiest? Let's do that. We can get so caught up in the shoulds – I…
How many of you have ever had a entire conversation with someone without realizing you were talking about two different things? Maybe you assumed you knew what the other person was talking about, and turned out to be wrong. Or vice versa. How does this kind of thing happen? Well, if you've ever heard this…
I definitely think 2020’s reputation precedes it at this point in the year. If bad things are supposed to come in threes, someone must explain to me how we’ve accumulated 798 of them since just mid-March. And yet, somehow we’ve miraculously made it what, in my humble opinion, is the best part of the year…the…
Frozen II was the last movie I saw in an actual theater, back before the coronavirus pandemic hit and shut down theaters along with everything else. A Disney film fan from way back, I collected all of the soundtracks so that I could listen to my favorites whenever I needed a pick-me-up. Looking back, this…
I recently came upon this article ranking the states from least to most friendly. Turns out, I unknowingly moved from one of the friendliest states in the country to two of the least friendliest. Smack dab at the bottom of the list (as in, the least friendliest state of all) is New York. And at…
I think I've made it pretty clear that NYC is my spirit animal, if my spirit animal could be a city. So everyone, including myself, was sort of surprised when I said I was going to move back to Houston after just a year in the big apple. Why leave a place I love so…
It’s been basically a week since I left NYC. I’ve spent that time visiting Kyle in Rochester (yay, Amtrak!) — and what a difference a week makes! Here are just a few of the withdrawals I’ve experienced so far (I think some might be considered more deposits than withdrawals, but you get the idea): Grocery…
This is my last week in NYC. As I've been thinking of all of the amazing things I’ve seen and done since moving here last September, I wanted to commemorate the highlights here as well. So, here is my year in NYC by the numbers: 2 jobs 5 apartments viewed in 1 afternoon before selecting…
This month, the curtains are permanently closing on some of my favorite Broadway shows. Apparently a trend that happens every summer, with closing announcements following the Tony Awards, this just goes to show that Broadway is not just a labor of love, but also big business. The Prom – Although it only opened on Broadway…
One morning on my walk to the subway, a lady stopped me and asked, “Is there a subway around here?” She had a heavy accent, and it took me asking her to repeat her question a few times before I even figured out that she was asking about a subway. Now because I’m still new…
