we're all mad here
From the flight to a hellish first day to consistently not being able to get inside my Airbnb, Madeira was kind of a nightmare. I don’t at all attribute everything that happened to the island itself because Madeira is absolutely stunning, and I do really want to come back someday and actually tackle Pico Arieiro…
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Real talk, I read almost no books while on vacation. I think I read one? This is my shortest wrap-up ever not just because of the books, but also because I watched nothing, and I’m just going to link my Portugal posts in my life section, so uhhhhh, hello and goodbye in about four seconds?…
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Not gonna lie, I was in São Miguel for one whole day before I decided that I liked it more than anything I’d done previously. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad that I saw Lisboa & Porto, and I’m going to carry those memories with me forever, but I also don’t think I’ll ever…
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There are so many hills in this country. SO MANY. I heard Lisboa called the city of seven hills, and I joked it should be seventy, but ALSO SAME FOR PORTO. I somehow saw even more churches & monasteries while I was in Porto, and I’m hella excited about it, so read on for more…
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On my first day in Portugal, Erin said she was shocked that I hadn’t already come up with a book. On my second day, my mom asked if I’d been there eight days already. Each day does truly feel like I’ve fit four days worth of activities in, but it’s been absolutely perfect, and Lisboa…
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The what are you reading Wednesday posts are hosted by Taking on a World of Words! Gonna be real, this past week was rough. I made it to Portugal! I’m writing this on my last night in Lisbon, so by the time you read this tomorrow, I will be en route to Porto, and I am very excited.…
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This week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic was actually a bit harder than I was expecting, though I think that’s mostly because I kept fighting with myself on adjective vs adverb. I’m not a huge fan of grammar, if we’re being honest, and I’ve been called out on it a lot in my own writing,…
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I originally titled this as just an ode to Mrs. Ryan, but then I was hosting a fake interview with my future self in which someone asked me about the three teachers I’d listed at the top of my acknowledgements, and I knew that I had to talk about all three of them and not…
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I can’t believe that I leave tomorrow. That’s insane to me. I’ve spent years waiting for other people to give me the time of day so that I could travel, and finally saying screw it and just going by myself feels like madness. I mean, I’m going abroad, for the first time in my life,…
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The what are you reading Wednesday posts are hosted by Taking on a World of Words! Gonna be real, this past week was rough. It took me five days to read a 300 page middle grade that should have realistically taken two days, and I’m so tired. Which is just, like, a huge departure from last week when…
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Mary and the Words 