Hindsight is 20/20 and, in hindsight, 2020 is the year I made a decision that wouldn’t work out. It was early March, and the semester hadn’t yet moved online due to Covid-19. I had the intense realization that I would be graduating in two months, and I had no idea what I was going… Continue reading Falling From the Ivory Tower
Already, 2023 has thrown some surprises my way. I knew back in February that I was listening to less music than before, but the past two months has proven that, sometimes, old habits and hobbies can be hard to maintain when you’re building a new life. March saved some releases for a grand finale,… Continue reading What I’m Listening To: March & April 2023
(Yes, this post is fifteen days past schedule. Life happens). February did not go quite to plan. Now that I’ve settled into a new schedule, the time I usually spent for discovering new tracks or listening to songs on repeat has been lessened. Instead, a good chunk of my days is full of the… Continue reading What I’m Listening To: February 2023
Most of my childhood summers were spent between various day camps, weeks at my grandparents’, and the ever-changing hue of my skin. We’d swim until our eyes burned from chlorine. We stayed out later and slept in. In the time before cell phones and unlimited data, we made plans for where and when to… Continue reading “Was There Any Other Choice?”: Wasps in the Ice Cream by Tim McGregor
Here we go. Another year of tracking my favorite songs and albums each month. Another year of trying to predict what flavor will capture my attention. Diving into new releases and old classics. Finding new meanings for old favorites. The potential of 2023 is exciting, and I’m looking forward to a year of musical endorphins.… Continue reading What I’m Listening To: January 2023
I don’t know what Rachel Hawkins puts into her books, but I am obsessed. The Villa, her latest release, is in the same vein as her earlier suspense novels—The Wife Upstairs and Reckless Girls—but with an edge and greater sense of cohesion that shows growth. I devoured the entire book in a day. I… Continue reading “No Such Thing as Getting Away with It”: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
One of my goals this year was to read more. In 2021, I was an ‘average’ reader, completing fourteen books. I set the same initial goal in January—at least one book a month—and, as of today, have exceeded my expectations. Maybe the person I was a few years ago would be disappointed, but I’m… Continue reading What I Read in 2022
This was an interesting year—musically. At the beginning of 2022, my listening habits were largely the same—always in the background. Whether I was cooking, driving, doing chores, or reading, I had music. In February, however, I let more silence into my life. I never used to like the quiet and music filled that void,… Continue reading My Favorite Music of 2022
Another full year of WILT is done. Each month I kept track of my favorite songs and albums, but plenty didn’t make the cut. A lot of decent songs were buried in the backlog, but I’m here to bring them to light. These songs have stood the test of time and deserve a shout-out for… Continue reading What I’m Listening To: 2022 Honorable Mentions
We’re almost at the end of the year here, and that means we have one final list of monthly favorites before we narrow them all down to some honorable mentions and the top fifty. December, then, is a bit of an odd month. Mentally, I’m trying to tally all those past listens together while… Continue reading What I’m Listening To: December 2022
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