Tag: hoarding
New Years Reflections and Resolutions
3-minute read time. Today’s post is short and sweet. Over this break, I have been less focused on my blog due to the holidays and applying to seemingly thousands of internships, but because New Year’s is a time of reflection and resolution, I thought I would break my silence with a small post. Please enjoy.… Read more
Animal Hoarding: An Infographic
5-minute read time. Today’s post is another attempt at an infographic about one of the heartbreaking symptoms of hoarding disorder, animal and pet hoarding. Read more
Improving the Narrative Around Hoarding, Part 2
10-minute read time. Today’s post is less original than educational. As promised, here is one of the assignments I submitted for one of the writing courses, with the professor’s comments attached so you can see my revision process. Below the file, you’ll find the revised article. If interested, please read it and tell me how… Read more
Goat paths
7-minute read time. According to a simple Google search, a goat path can be many things. It can be a grassy meadow. Posted about in the Amish Country News, the Goat Path is defined as the unusually shaped piece of land that stretches through some of the most used Amish farmland in the county. Its… Read more
Saving the world, one bottle at a time
7-minute read time. Everyone experiences climate anxiety differently. According to Cornell Health, climate anxiety, also known as eco-anxiety, is the feeling of stress about the effects of climate change on the environment, human health, and ecosystems. With climate anxiety comes a range of symptoms, including intrusive thoughts; feelings of grief, loss, anger, sadness, and guilt;… Read more
Commentary: Dead Body in the Collyer Mansion
8-minute read time. This will be the first part of a series of commentaries on each chapter of the fascinating book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and The Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. During these informal commentaries, I will list each annotation I noted in the chapter, explaining why I pointed the… Read more
Defining the Clutter: the Struggle of Labeling Hoarding
8-minute read time. Today’s post is another rough first draft of a piece I recently submitted for another class. Again, once I get comments on this piece, I’ll share them and edit them to improve the story. This article contains content you might have seen in my other pieces, namely the explainer I wrote about… Read more
Hesitancy
9-minute read time. I want to write a book. At least, I think I do. I think that the topic of this blog deserves to be published. I don’t care so much that it is me writing it (that’s not to say I don’t take pride in my work), but I think writing a book… Read more
Interview with Kara
23-minute read time. Welcome back from the November holiday! I hope you had a restful and enjoyable Thanksgiving. I will return to posting today with a great interview I did with one of my fellow students in the JHU Master’s program. I thought this interview was particularly interesting because Kara is one of the few… Read more
Shower
6-minute read time. Today’s piece is a personal essay about my experience with cleanliness. Please enjoy. Stepping into the shower should feel relieving. Washing away a day’s worth of sweat, grime, and dirt is usually a pleasant, comforting experience. As the warm water washes over you, the smell of your shampoo fills your nostrils, and… Read more
