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Goals for People Who Hate Making Goals (Namely, Me)
This quote pretty much sums up my relationship with goals of any sort—work-related, personal, deadlines, resolutions, all of it. I’ve never been good with them; I’ve always seen them more as loose…
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2017 Year in Review
Last year, when I felt like I needed to remember the good things in what was sure to be a shitty year to come, I wrote up a long list…
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Literary Karma (the good kind)
I’ve read a lot of books about cancer lately, and two of my favorites are When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hour. Both memoirs were published after the authors…
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365 Days of Memories
I’ve tried to keep a diary my whole life. I have boxes and boxes of notebooks in my closet to prove it, dating as far back as grade school. None…
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Top Seven Books Elise Read (and/or Listened to) in 2017
Because ten reviews was just too damn long. As we already know, I don’t keep up with the latest books. Hence my reading list this year has been all over…
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Can’t talk, gotta read.
There are only seven more days left this year and I have four more books to finish before I complete my 2017 Goodreads Reading Challenge. Will post more when I’m…
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My 2018 Reading Goals
This time of year I am obsessed with goals. Personal, professional, you name it. It really brings out the Type A in my personality, not something I’m overly proud of,…
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Vic’s 2017 Top Ten Books
Dah, dah, dah, dah!! Here is it, my annual list of the top ten best books I read this year. Not all of these were published in 2017, but they…
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Top Ten Books I’m Thankful For
This month has been a whirlwind of travel and work for me so I am looking forward to a quiet few days with my family, eating delicious food, and playing…
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Out of Fashion
I’ve never been one for fashion, not in any sense of the word. I don’t wear trendy clothes; I tend more toward jeans and plain shirts and Doc Martens. I…