Title & Author: Happy Place by Emily Henry Genre: Romance Rating: ★★★★★(5 / 5) [my book rating scale] Summary: Happy Place is about Harriet and Wyn, an engaged couple on their yearly beach trip to Maine with their closest friends. Problem is: they aren’t engaged …
Title & Author: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3.5 / 5) [my book rating scale] Summary: The book follows two friends over the course of 30 years through the successes and hardships they experience while creating a video …
Title & Author: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Genre: Fiction | Psychological Thriller Rating: ★★★★☆ (4 / 5) [my book rating scale] Summary: Alicia Berenson, a famous painter, seemingly randomly shoots her husband several times in the face and then never speaks again. Her …
. Hi there! My name is Giulia. I am thirty [something] years old and I live in Washington, DC with my husband the two cutest, cuddliest pets in the world. . My blog has always been my happy place – a place on the internet …
Last month, I hiked the Billy Goat Trail with J and one of my best friends. I can’t believe I had not hiked this trail before now, especially as it is one of the more well-known hikes in the DC-metro area (you can read more …
We are inundated with exorbitant amounts of information on a daily basis, and to be honest, I am surprised that anyone remembers anything. Between the incessant red bubbles popping up on our phones, the technology that allows us to chat with multiple people simultaneously, and …
Recently, I’ve been really into working on the goals I set for this year, but I know that normally by February the goal motivation and energy of many have already started to run out. I have always been a goal-oriented person, but I realize that …
If you are like me, you love to read, but sometimes struggle with getting back into a reading habit if it’s been a little while since you’ve picked up a book. I lost my reading momentum earlier this year and had a hard time trying …
Am I the only one who feels that the weather this fall has been amazing?! I don’t want to jinx it, but I definitely do want to take advantage of it! Since we had such amazing weather last week, and J had a day off, …
After a much-needed break, I am back with a fun post (well, at least in my opinion): a list of projects that I have done while in quarantine! While I recently wrote a similar post that gave an honest, high-level, realistic account of what quarantine …
Up until recently, I was one of those people that had thousands of unorganized photos on my phone’s camera roll. It was only when I almost lost 4,000 of my precious iPhone photos (you can read more about that horrible situation here), that I decided …
If you couldn’t already tell, memory keeping is a huge hobby and passion of mine. In addition to chronicling photos, journaling daily, and creating annual photo books, another way that I preserve my memories is by keeping memory boxes. What is a memory box, you …
While organizing all my photos and making photo books during quarantine, I have come across countless pictures from when my husband and I were long distance. (For those who don’t know, my husband and I were long distance at the very beginning of our relationship …
I think my coffee addiction started in college, maybe even high school. To be honest, I don’t remember the exact moment it started, I just remember it always being there. As you can imagine, working full time while getting my MBA only made the addiction …