One of my earliest memories of seeing a movie in theaters is The Hunchback of Notre Dame—generally not considered one of Disney’s better animated films. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently, though, and after seeing this video from Lindsay Ellis on YouTube, I wanted to write about why I think this movie is…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that moving is terrible. Recently(ish), I made it through a big move which, as such things are wont to do, turned out to be very enlightening. The biggest lesson? Turns out, I have a lot of books. I obviously already knew I had a lot of books. But there’s…
One of the strangest things to come from this quarantine (so far) is a small but very surreal change in the way that I think about “the outside world.” Before, it just was. It was ordinary, it was omnipresent, and it was familiar. Now, whenever I look out my window, everything feels so foreign somehow.…
Today, I read an essay by Brian Doyle that appears in his book One Long River of Song. It is about humility, which he compares to the “Final Frontier.” There were a few sections that stood out to me and felt particularly timely. It was one of those times where I was grateful that I…
I have not been reading as much as usual lately and I thought that maybe writing about some of the books I’m excited to read might inspire me to pick one of them up and do some reading this weekend. Without further ado, here are some books, in no particular order, that I am particularly…
Differences between art forms are fascinating to me. Reading and writing are my favorite things in the world, so literature is the art form that I understand best and relate to most. But I love looking at everything from dance, music, visual art, film…you name it. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about musical theatre in…
Christmas is the day that holds all time together. –Alexander Smith Merry Christmas!