We are a little less than 3 weeks away from Valentine’s Day, and restaurants in Nashville have booked up fast for February 14. If you are looking for something fun and different to do with your valentine or your galentines, I have compiled a list of 5 different outings: 1. Take a Salud! Cooking School class…
4 Simple Ways to Liven up Your Home with Green
I am a plant lover. I absolutely love rooms that are filled with fresh green life. That is why I currently have nine real (and one artificial) plants in my small one-bedroom apartment and even more decorating my balcony. Take the plants out, and the room looks empty and lifeless to me. Green brings energy, motivation,…
5 Ways to Make Life a Little Sweeter This January
Most years, I do not enjoy wintertime. I am usually partial to warm weather, sunshine, and beaches. However, this year I have been enjoying winter way more than usual! Maybe it is just getting older, but I have been relishing the cold and the coziness. If you are someone who counts down the days until…
Pre-Order Tennessee’s Best Emerging Poets
I am super excited to announce that I will have a poem published in Z Publishing House’s Tennessee’s Best Emerging Poets. I have been writing poetry since I was in middle school and even majored in English/Creative Writing with a poetry emphasis in college. Writing poetry is not my career, but it’s always been how…
4 things I’m not shopping for (and the 1 that I am) in 2018
After reading Ann Patchett’s “My Year of No Shopping” in the New York Times, I started thinking about the reality of not shopping for an entire year. Would I want to do that? Could I? It sounded liberating to me – a year without more stuff. And yet, what would I do if I needed something? Worse,…
8 Ways to Alter Your Life in 2018
Pictured Above: Parnassus Books For the most part, New Year’s Resolutions can be unrealistic. They are often lofty goals such as “eat healthier” or “work out every day” without a plan and can easily lead to nothing. I have been thinking often about how to take resolutions and actually start fresh and plan to be…