Inspiration

I first noticed something was weird as an undergraduate looking for a place to study fashion design. Most majors had predictable names and departments. Chemistry was always in with the sciences. Writing majors went to the English Department. But fashion design could be almost anywhere, from the Fine Arts Department to the Business School. Occasionally,…

Over the last year, I’ve been making a concious effort to read more. When things first shut down, however, my ability to concentrate just… wasn’t there. And that was a problem, because I’m happiest and at my most creative when I’m exposed to lots of new things. Eventually I devloped a few strategies for reading…

The past few years I’ve consistantly had “read more books” on my list of yearly goals. I read a lot as a child, but the last few years my TBR pile has been rapidly outpacing my actual reading. So, this year I decided to get specific and quanitfy my goal: 100 books in a year….

As I write this, we’re having one of those deceptively beautiful winter days. The kind where the sky is blue and the sun is shining but the temperature never gets out of the 20s. This comes after a run of days of heavy grey clouds and flat, dull light. This sort of deep winter weather…