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Professing my love for Trader Joe He’s the reason I get to do something I look forward to every week. Indeed, Trader Joe’s was started by a gentleman named Joe, with one Pasadena store in 1967. As someone who would do almost anything to not interact with another human being while grocery shopping, I welcome…

The Case for Instapoerty Can you tell I’m a sucker for a good typewriter photo? For Valentine’s Day this year, a well-intentioned special someone gifted me two books of poetry. They were not books I would have chosen to purchase for myself, because they fall into a category of what’s known as “Instapoetry.” Described by…

How brands spiced things up for Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day or not, it can be nice to add variety into the usual mix. I did some digging to see how advertisers capitalized on the retail holiday this year. The biggest theme I saw involved brands taking a nontraditional approach. Whether it be diverting from social…

The “Parasite” effect: What do we get out of rewatching movies? With popcorn between my teeth after a third viewing of “Parasite,” I couldn’t help but wonder why the movie was just as good each time, aside from the fact that it’s just that fantastic. Perhaps I only enjoyed visiting the new luxury movie theater…

Get back on the Horse(man) & other lessons from the end of Bojack I finally watched the eight episodes that comprise the second half of Bojack Horseman’s last season. Here’s what made them so great, in all their dark comedic realness. Quashing the depressed artist trope Writer Diane begins to think she can’t compose her…

My Favorite Love Poems A good love poem is hard to pull off, and I certainly haven’t been able to. With Valentine’s Day coming up, I figured I’d get a little festive by sharing the love poems I look to most for inspiration. “Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Zymborska They’re both convincedthat a sudden passion…

The Copywriter Is in: Super Bowl Edition In case you weren’t able to tell from the entirety of my being, I’m not a huge sports person. But, I did watch the Super Bowl. For the ads, of course, and I think they really stepped up their game after some flops last year. As part of…

The Art of the 21st Century Salon One of my favorite periods of history is the Age of Enlightenment. From it, sprung the idea of the 18thcentury salon, where the great minds of the time would gather to discuss topics from philosophy to literature. As a writer, I often find myself drawn to like-minded creative…

Written in the Stars Seeing as this is my first blog post, I thought it best to serve as an introduction to myself, and what better way is there to get to know someone than their birth chart? By no means am I a professional astrologer. Everything I know comes from religiously reading my Elle…