Category: Reflections

And also not showing my children’s faces or any of my family and friends’ faces online. This is the decision I had to make when I came back to using Instagram and writing on this blog. It wasn’t something I had always thought about. In fact, I never really cared about being exposed or showing…

The idea of reading books has always been an overwhelming subject for me. Ever since I was a child, I was never really interested in reading books. I thought books were boring in general unless there were illustrations on each page. I did read novels in my teen years out of boredom, and I read…

I’ve written in my last post about my new found interest in collecting old books . Around this time is when I got carried away and started shopping at a local antique mall, searching for leather-bound old books. I found so many of them—novels, medical books, nonfiction books, cookbooks, and children’s books. The oldest book…

I never really saw myself doing this, but out of nowhere I started thinking, “It would be really nice to have old books on the shelf.” Perhaps the idea comes from my affinity for vintage or old-world aesthetics. Our fireplace has a shelf on top, and it was filled with nativity figurines during Christmas. Now…