For those of you who don't know, Naomi Osaka is a 20-year-old professional tennis player from Japan. Ever since she turned pro in 2013, she has played women who were formerly ranked number one in the world, including Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber, Karolína Plíšková, and Maria Sharapova, as well as the current number …
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My Favorite Movie
I love a lot of movies... so many of them, probably too many. I love everything about movies. I pride myself on quoting classic lines from and identifying actors and actresses in numerous movies, even though both are tidbits of arguably useless information that I'm wasting precious space saving in my brain. I have full scenes …
My Favorite Song
I used to hate the idea of choosing a favorite. Besides my favorite color (green), I used to think that picking favorites of anything else was impossible. There was just way too much to choose from, I thought, and I didn't have the guts to narrow it down and choose only one when there were …
Friends
So this post had to go through a bit of a rewrite. I'll get straight to the reason why: a longtime friend of mine died yesterday. She had been in the hospital since February, fighting tooth and nail to recover from a cardiac arrest, and in the past few days, she decided that she didn't …
Family
This past weekend, I went to a family reunion in Maine. I think this was the first one in my life that I've actually attended for my mom's side of the family, one of the official, organized ones anyway. It was a lot to take in. Obviously, there was quite a bit to catch up …
The Struggle with Suicide
I want to preface this post by saying that I myself have never contemplated suicide. I haven't recently thought and I'm not currently thinking about killing myself. So I can't begin to comprehend what it must be like to experience the darkness and feelings that others have. I can only write about what I've seen, …
Days Nine and Ten
Post one per day, in no particular order, your 10 all-time favorite albums that really made an impact and are still in your rotation to this day. Post the cover, no need to explain your choice. Day Nine: Crash by Dave Matthews Band Crash was the first album by Dave Matthews that I had, and it took …
Day Eight
(When you get sick and your husband gets sick, and you totally fall off the bandwagon!) Post one per day, in no particular order, your 10 all-time favorite albums that really made an impact and are still in your rotation to this day. Post the cover, no need to explain your choice. Day Eight: Songs You …
Day Seven
Post one per day, in no particular order, your 10 all-time favorite albums that really made an impact and are still in your rotation to this day. Post the cover, no need to explain your choice. Day Seven: Bringing Down the Horse by The Wallflowers This is an interesting one. Bringing Down the Horse was …
Day Six
Post one per day, in no particular order, your 10 all-time favorite albums that really made an impact and are still in your rotation to this day. Post the cover, no need to explain your choice. Day Six: The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance I don't have many songs by My Chemical Romance anymore, not …
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