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Dear Reader, How well can you really get to know someone from a dating app? I’ve been on the apps for a while now (obligatory breakup post here) and have tried a few dating "methods" (more here and here). Today, I would like to write about what I have learned about people (read: straight/ bisexual-young-adult-[mostly... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Data about oneself has become a hot commodity, and, also, one that I cherish. This feeble realization did not just occur to me, but I think about it now as I have recently received my results from the Everlywell Food Sensitivity test. As the name implies, the test measures one’s immune response (more... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Words matter… a lot, especially, when you are giving feedback. When I was a graduate student, I had an adviser who advocated for the “compliment sandwich” — start with a compliment, proceed to give critical feedback, and, then, end with a compliment. It can be hard to hear criticism, sometimes we even try... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Some bloopers look pretty fake, but I assure you, all the mistakes that I made while filming my web series “Pretty… If You Squint” airing on Youtube fall 2022 were all 100% due to my own genuine failures (#authentic lol). In part one of this post (here), I began to list some of... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Plenty of mistakes were made in the making of my web series “Pretty… If You Squint” (more here). It has been fun (and a lot of work) making the web series of comedic shorts (to be released on the Pretty… If You Squint YouTube channel fall 2022) and I find my series of... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Making a web series is a lot of work. This summer, I have undertaken a personal project to start my own limited web series. It’s called “Pretty…If You Squint,” a 9-episode series of comedic shorts, featuring me, Raven Sinclair (well, a fictionalized version of me to be more precise). While this has been... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, There’s something magical about the night. As a child, it was rare that I would ever go out at nighttime. When we did go out in the late hours, it always turned out to be an event. For example, those Harry Potter book release parties taking place in the hours before midnight were... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I’m getting a show! Okay, so like not a “show show,” rather a limited web series… produced by me. If you follow my blog, then you will already know that I’m very interested in acting (more here). Also, if you checked my blog post count (this is post number #556, by the way)... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, It’s been a while, but I’m going to talk about my book again. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about my book (which partially explains my lackluster promotion of it). However, my ambivalence (a word which literally means to hold contradictory feelings about something) toward my book has resolved itself into positivity... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I’m peacing out of Boston pretty soon for the summer (more here), which is causing me early onset nostalgia for this city that is, hands down, just gorge. I’m usually a fan of words, but today, I’m going to show you rather than tell you why this Boston is lit af. So, without... Continue Reading →
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