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Book Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Book Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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 

Book Review: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Book Review: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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 

Welcome To My Happy Place

Welcome To My Happy Place

. 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 

Hiking Billy Goat Trail

Hiking Billy Goat Trail

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 

How to Remember (Almost) Everything

How to Remember (Almost) Everything

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 

Goal Setting

Goal Setting

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 

How to Start a Reading Habit

How to Start a Reading Habit

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 

Hiking at Scott’s Run Nature Preserve

Hiking at Scott’s Run Nature Preserve

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, 

Projects I Have Done in Quarantine

Projects I Have Done in Quarantine

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 

How to Digitally Organize Years of Photos

How to Digitally Organize Years of Photos

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 

Memory Keeping | Memory Boxes

Memory Keeping | Memory Boxes

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 

Long Distance Relationship Diary: Reflecting

Long Distance Relationship Diary: Reflecting

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 

My Journey to Being Caffeine-Free

My Journey to Being Caffeine-Free

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 

A Very Real List of Things I’ve Done in Quarantine

A Very Real List of Things I’ve Done in Quarantine

My husband and I are now officially in week 8 of quarantine (I know, most people are probably in week 6 or 7, but his work went remote early and I work from home, so once he started working remotely I decided to start self-isolating