The title of this post comes from Dante's words in La Vita Nuova. As I write this, Italy has just entered "phase two" of its efforts to combat the Covid-19 o...

It started by casually listening to updates on the spread of the "novel COVID-19" on the BBC World News podcast over my morning espresso. Disinterested. Remo...

If you've been following me on Instagram or Twitter, then you probably know quite a bit about what I've been up to this year (hint: not writing). Image credi...

Those who have been following me for a while know that last year I did quite a bit of solo-traveling, documenting my adventures on here and on my Instagram (...

It's been a while. Since I've blogged. Since I've properly engaged with the writing community. It feels like it's been a while since I've even gotten any pro...

There are a lot of new changes and adjustments in my life to get used to, what with the start of grad school, so I'm going to try to go easy on myself with w...

Note: This was originally published on my old blog in May 2017. For my last semester of college, I had the wonderful experience of curating an exhibit with m...

I've always wanted to visit D.C., and one of my best friends from college happens to live there, so I finally found an opportunity to spend a long weekend in...

As I predicted in my last post, this month wasn't terribly productive, but sometimes that's a good thing. Not being productive means giving yourself a mental...

When I moved to Siena, Italy for nine months, I promised myself to have no expectations. That meant I inevitably expected everything. Throug

In order to try to get myself to blog more, I'm going to start doing reviews of my writing progress each month as well as goals for the next month. Starting ...

Unless something spontaneous comes up, I have taken what is most likely my last trip during this incredible year abroad. (I realized I only have five weeks l...

Note: This post was originally published on my old blog in early fall 2016, right as I was about to begin doing an overhaul of the book discussed in here for...

One of my friends from when I studied abroad in Siena is back in Italy to be an au pair in Florence for a couple months, so we decided to do a weekend trip t...

I've lived here long enough to be able to compile what I feel is a pretty solid list of reasons why I love to live in Italy. As I've said, I know very well a...

Note: This was originally published on my old blog, and garnered nearly 900 views on a blog that averaged maybe 70. The sentiment in it is still applicable n...

I'm one of those people who gets really into the new year. I pull out my shiny new Passion Planner on January 1st and pencil in all my goals and plans for th...

2016 was a really hard year for my family. We lost a lot and went through some significant changes, which I'll touch on in the republishing of my most popula...

About a month ago, I decided not to tell my mom I was coming home for Christmas. We had been going back and forth on this all semester: do I come home or do ...

I'm at the point with Italian where I know most of the grammar--at least what's used most frequently--and now it's time to practice and get used to, well, sp...