Getting back to actual blogging

📜 Looking back

Jan 1

I’ve been rewriting this blog over and over until I finally realised why. I’m editorialising too much. My brain is trying to make a personal blog into a branding opportunity or showing off a part of myself. Too much thought properly writing and not enough actual writing. Actually showing myself.

My first blog was on Blogger, then transitioned to Livejournal. I owe a lot to Livejournal. It’s where I found my passion in design, friends from different places and understanding a world outside of my small town in North Carolina. My writing was all over the place, mainly middle and high school angst, and I didn’t care what people thought of my when I wrote it. Here’s to tapping into that mindset again.

2022 wrap ups for books, movies & music

Reading

63 books read, goal not met (70)

Favorite book: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. A brutally honest memoir and highly relatable to something in my life.

Other recommendations:

The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York by Chandler Burr
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger