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Music was interwoven into the fabric of my life growing up. Mom often conscripted me into various singing groups and dancing lessons. And never mind how she dreamed of her seven daughters forming some kind of Osmond-type ensemble while wearing our infamous “rainbow dresses.” Continuing on my nostalgic trend, I find myself revisiting moments from my past. Times when I absorbed life lessons at a rapid rate, chiseling away at the marble of my personality, deciding which traits a

Earlier this summer we got some milkweed plants and placed them outside our bedroom window. Before your eyes glaze over with boredom, stay with me. We bought these plants to attract butterflies. And who doesn’t want more butterfly sightings? Sure enough, a butterfly laid her eggs on a milkweed plant and produced—by our count—nine caterpillars. Hungry ones, at that. A few weeks later, a tiny chrysalis hung from a nearby leaf. Then others appeared. Was it happening? Would we be

Have you ever had karma work in your favor? In such a weird and glorious way that you can’t shut up about it? Just me? OK, well, here’s a story for you. My frister (friend+sister) Megan and I had been eyeing the Eras Tour passively, but longingly. She’d been a Swiftie for years and at some point began a campaign to convert me. As an aside, Taylor Swift is a poet in her own right. Some have compared her lyrics to Shakespeare, and as a Shakespeare aficionado myself, I’ll say th