Madeleine L’Engle said that inspiration usually comes during work, not before it. And if it’s one thing I have been learning, it’s that sometimes you just have to show up for life even when you don’t feel ready, excited, or inspired. And so I’m showing up now, to my lovely little blog, to write something […]
I’m not very good at this blogging thing, even though it’s been my goal to write more often. I’m feeling a little uninspired, so instead I thought I’d make a “photo essay” of my week. I flew home to visit my family for fall break. What can I say, it was a gorgeous, clear […]
Body Dysmorphia
  My brother told me about a study recently conducted involving blind people who could now see, thanks to corrective surgery (read the article discussing the study in the New Yorker here).   The study sought to answer a hypothetical question that has been around for awhile called “Molyneux’s problem.” If you give a […]
I used to weigh myself religiously every morning. Then it became every morning and every evening. Then sometimes, in the afternoon. The first time I threw up, I stood over the bathroom toilet, wondering if I was really going to do it. People only throw up when they have eating disorders, and I wasn’t ready […]
Castles and Chocolate
Yesterday was a long an exciting day! We left around 9 in the morning by train to head to the castle. It was around a two hour hike from the train station. Not my favorite thing! I hate hiking, and I am especially paranoid of ticks, but fortunately the majority of the hike was on […]