Spill-the-Tea Saturday: To All The Building Blocks I’ve Left Behind

There’s nothing like a good tea spilling to end the week. I want this type of post to be in the same vein as my previous posts labeled, “Metamorphosis,” because while the topic is still largely about change, it’s more about life, and all the details and advice that comes with talking about it. The […]

“I’m Doing This For Me,” and Other Things Artists Forget

Okay, as cheesy and great as that title would be for a longer article, or even a blowhard self-help book by artists for artists (sign me up), this is just a snippet of what I’ve been thinking about lately that falls under this title’s message. A conversation with a friend recently made me realize something […]

Challenging the Single Story: A Closer Look At Narratives

Throughout the course of my semester learning about children’s literature, the concept of the single story was always challenged with every new narrative read in class. The single story is the concept that a person usually consumes one narrative about a people or a thing, and are not aware of other narratives or truths out […]

Metamorphosis Take #2

People are always talking about “living your best life” nowadays. I was thinking to myself how I don’t even know what that means. But I do know that, no, currently I am not living my best life. Currently, to get to my job or my school I have to leave about two hours before. And sure, it’s […]

Metamorphosis take #1

Sometimes we are stagnant despite our best intentions. I’m pretty sure it’s been more than a year since I made any real headway with my novel, even though I told myself I would write every week. So I needed a type of change.