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1. Ordinary 22
This isn’t the first post I ever published on this website (that one has been archived long ago), but it’s the first post I ever thought about writing. I find this post to be very perceptive. I think liked who I was when I wrote this and it shows.
2.Jenga
I started thinking about this long before I ever got a website. I think it’s one of the rawest most vulnerable things I’ve ever written.
3. Notes on Living Alone for the First time
I wrote this after coming out of a particularly bad mental space. Not only do I think the advice holds up, I think younger me did a good job living by herself.
I think the words of wisdom here are pretty solid and it’s paired with some of my favourite pictures of myself.
Now I like many of my reviews and trying to narrow them down for this post is kinda difficult, but I can’t afford to not mention this gem. Now it could be it’s cause this is now my favourite book, but I think the way I wrote this particular review was really good.
I was literally just taking the piss with this one. Not only do I think it was a good review, I definitely think it was extremely funny.
Probably the best writing advice I’ve ever given in my life.
8. Scintilla
This is just a lovely post on friendship. For those who know me friendship is such a big deal to me, and I think this post encapsulates that through the lens of one of my dearest friendships.
See point 8.
10. Anniversaries, Turning 26 and The Passage of Time
I think it’s easy to tell that my birthday blogposts are some of my favourite ones in general. But there’s an unpolished and raw everywhere-ness to this one that tags at me all the time. I love all I had to say. I love the pictures I took. I love the vignettes I shared. I love how it all came together at the end there.
Bonus material
After launching my dot com, I also went on to launch my email newsletter (I call them postcards but they were formerly known as telegrams). As much as I haven’t been very consistent in that department, here are some of my favourite over the years as well:
- It doesn’t have to last forever : On how permeance is not mutually exclusive with success
- Begin again : On having the courage to start over
- Just Begin : On having the courage to just start
- A small fact : On remembering you must die
- The best I can be : On giving the bare minimum
- Look How far you’ve come: On making progress
- I planted something : On self care
- Loving yourself is a hard endeavor: On self love
- Hello. Goodbye again: On being depressed and not giving up
- Good days are not finite : On how friendships save my life
