Archive | On the Book of Delights

I have not always been a good friend. Oftentimes I take days to answer a simple text. I tend to groan when I receive unsolicited FaceTime calls – mostly because I prefer notice, not because I do not like the caller (usually). I also have the disgraceful tendency to cancel plans at the last minute. […]

I’ve been trying to do a variety of things to better myself since my mental health took a whooping nose dive exactly around January of last year. While I have been on a rollercoaster of good and bad depression days over the last ten years, something inside of me must have broke. While I’ve made […]

Now before we get into this, I would like to preface this whole thing by saying this is all coming from a cat lover and owner. Walking down the busy street after class, having what I remember to be a conversation on a rather difficult or annoying topic with a friend, though at this point […]

This summer, my brother had the bold idea to drive to Avalon, New Jersey to see my aunt and uncle in their beach house one last time before they moved down south. On the face of it, there was nothing bold about visiting family, but my brother is always in a rush, so the plan […]

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated with apocalyptic fictions. I was obsessed with The Walking Dead for many years, even reading most of the comic books; I found excitement in the approaching doom that was prophesized to wreak havoc at the end of the year 2012; I’ve only gained familiarity with a […]

It’s an overcast day––no sun, but very humid and warm. I love weather like today. It makes me think of going to the aquarium with my mom as a little girl. I drive down Calhoun, a street I’ve been down about a thousand times. Living in a city very near to where you grew up […]

One of my 2023 New Year’s resolutions was to write more outside of an academic context. Shortly thereafter, my daily journal was born. Each day since January 1st I have made entry, of no required length, that details my thoughts and encounters (and pretty much whatever I feel inspired to scrawl) of the day. If […]

I would like to preface this post with an explanation. As I’ve referenced previously, I am not a fan of  The Book of Delights. For a number of reasons that I won’t go into at present, the formal elements of a “delight” are difficult to reconcile with my personal literary philosophy. However, as a writing […]