I don’t know about my readers, but there’s nothing that gets me going like putting the perfect outfit together before leaving the comfort of my home. Even on a rainy day, if I’ve taken the time to piece together a cute outfit, I seem to go about the rest of my day with a spring in my step. I stumbled into college with barely an idea of how I wanted my sense of style to evolve and walked out with a pretty concrete sense of my “aesthetic” or whatever you want to call it. It too

This past Sunday evening, Love Island USA season 8 came to an end with an obvious winning couple and a handful of observations I felt the need to discuss. As an avid Love Island fan—I’ve probably seen over 15 seasons across the UK and Australian shows—this is the very first time I’ve watched a Love Island USA season all the way through in real time. It was also the first time I kept up with every episode and voted throughout the season, which added to the experience as I felt

For as long as I can remember, I’ve surrounded myself with like-minded, creative people. No matter the art form or outlet, I’ve often found companionship in other artistic communities. Following an adolescence making life-long friends in theatre, I found solace in the peers I worked with on my college’s literary-arts magazine. Luckily, I befriended two incredibly talented graphic designers who inevitably became my roommates and then my best friends. I enjoy that my editorial

I just returned from a weekend up north in the city with my best friend from high school, Ally. She’s been living up there for the past four or five months, taking on fun party jobs and living it up as an aspiring musical theatre actress (and a talented one at that)! After months of calls and texts anticipating this trip, I finally hopped on a flight and made it to the Big Apple last Thursday evening. We had a pretty packed weekend, full of nights out at various NYC clubs, ro

Olivia Rodrigo—modern pop/rock icon and future music legend—just released her third official album titled “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl so in Love.” The album dropped last Friday at midnight, and the girls have been recovering ever since. I was anticipating Olivia Rodrigo’s new album while coming out of a long-term relationship and dealing with several life changes that have evoked feelings of instability, a lack of control, and, honestly, plenty of self-doubt. The announce

Thanks for tuning in to my brand-new blog, Mixed Bag, which will cover a range of genres, including lifestyle & wellness, art & fashion, and entertainment & music blogs! Now that I've introduced the topics, there's something I'd like you to focus on as a reader going through my work. Take a breath. Refer to the last time you really related to something. It can be a song, a movie, a TV show, or maybe even an article, a poem, or something more out of the box; maybe you got a re