Sun & Soul

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  • March Reads and Also, I Moved

    March Reads and Also, I Moved

    I’m surprised I logged five books in March, because I spent most of the month wrestling through an ARC of Tia Levings’ new book (which I still haven’t finished). Sight Unseen by Alexis Marie (4 stars) This magical-realism novel is the author’s original adaptation of her GOAT Dramione fanfic, Measure of a Man. It’s a…

  • A New Chapter

    A New Chapter

    Around the new year, I started having blogging ideas again. I didn’t post anything for most of 2025 – I got overwhelmed every time I tried to assemble a month in review post, which is all I had been writing for a while. Part of the problem was feeling like Don’t Stop Believing no longer…

  • Mom Bod

    I’ve been reflecting on my old fitness routine, before covid and motherhood. For my entire adult life up to March 2020, I worked out four or five days a week. Five days a week. That was what it took to maintain that weight. That was the amount of endorphins it took to keep my lifelong…

  • Hello From the Other Side

    Hello From the Other Side

    I had a healthy baby boy on June 5! I expect to write a more detailed birth post eventually, but in summary, C3 (as I’ll call him here for now) was born after a 36+ hour induction ending in a c-section. It’s been the longest month of my life and I usually don’t know what…

  • Pandemic Diary

    Pandemic Diary

    Last week, I had to start crossing out events in my planner. One week out, then two. Then more. I decided to cross them out, instead of White-Out taping over them. I decided the crossing out should stand, as a historical record of the things we’re all losing, hopefully temporarily but losing nonetheless. Initially, I…