writing
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Seattle: You Keep Calling Me Back

I love writing recaps of trips I’ve taken, and this one was no exception. There have been a few over the years, including a previous post called “Welcome Home to Seattle.” It’s a city that fascinates me — it’s dive-y and grungy (for lack of a less cliche word), it has fun tourist spots (more Continue reading
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Luster: A Book Review of Sorts
For the last year I’ve been participating in a book club. Normally I’d roll my eyes at that kind of activity, but with our first book being “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite, paired with the boredom and loneliness of pandemic life, this book club couldn’t have been a better fit. A few Continue reading
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A “regular” artist
I did a little painting over the winter break. I painted this lily for Oz’s sister and her husband. These flowers were in her bouquet at her wedding. This one was for my Florida grandparents. This was for Oz’s parents. His mom has tons of family in Nova Scotia and Peggy’s Cove is one of Continue reading
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Ever wonder what writing majors do in class?
If there’s one thing I can say about the writing majors, it’s that we pay very close attention in class. Not necessarily to take notes on the lectures (although we do that too), but mostly, we wait for our professors to say something hilarious so we can write it down and savor it, or for Continue reading
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Lough quotes
This is my first quarter with James Lough and I’m learning that he is a very interesting man. For those of you who are unaware, Dr. Lough is the chair of the writing department here at SCAD. He is teaching my Writing for the Arts I class this quarter. His utterances are often startling and Continue reading
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Adios, Mexico trip
It deeply grieves me to say that I won’t be able to go on the off-campus Mexico trip this December. At this point you’re probably asking: Why, Sarah? Why aren’t you going on the two week, fun-filled, journal-tastic fiesta? The answer, my friends, is simply: money. I knew it wouldn’t be a cheap trip, but Continue reading