“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

  • January Reading Wrap-Up

    What a marvelous start to my reading year that was January. I haven’t felt so on top of my reading goals, well, […]

  • The Place inside the Blizzard

    Book review of “The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • 2023 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag

    About three months late for this tag, but here we are! Checking in on this year’s reading goal, I’m right on track […]

  • Tunnel Vision: My Common App Essay

    My Revised Attempt at Authenticity During what feels like an eternity ago but was actually last summer, college applications loomed over life, […]

  • Aliens and Implications

    On Cixin Liu’s “The Three-Body Problem” “The Three-Body Problem” is the first installment of a science-fiction trilogy by Chinese author Cixin Liu. […]