Feeding Your Soul

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What feeds your soul?

What feeds your soul? This is a very large question filled with incredible, easy to discover answers but sometimes the hardest to put into practice. As a new mom (daughter, 14 months) I have had a hard time feeding my soul without feeling guilty. Every time I do something for myself that feeds my soul (reading, writing, watching my favorite TV show or movie) I feel guilty that I am not spending that time with my daughter. Even if my daughter is asleep or playing by herself which my wife and I want her to be able to do I still feel guilty that I am taking the time for myself instead of her. The joys of motherhood! dTaking a step back for a moment, what does feeding your soul mean? In the simplest sense it means doing something that you love and/or are passionate about. No one can find out what you love other than you but some things could include reading, meditating, yoga, soaking in the bath, writing, anything. The choice is up to you. But the thing you have to learn is feeding

Discovery of Witches: Season 1

A Discovery of Witches, one of my favorite books of all time recently was turned into a series by Sky One, a Canadian and UK based production company. It was released in the US via Sundance Now and Shudder (streaming services) on January 17th. Naturally I watched all 8 episodes of season 1 in 3 days. And then it took me 2 days to process how I felt about it. Conclusion, still not sure. I read Discovery of Witches back in 2013 and again at the end of 2018. I loved it then and love it now. Deborah Harkness creates a fantastic world of witches, vampires, demons, and humans it is hard not to get sucked in. The love between Matthew and Diana on paper is incredibly powerful, tugging at your heart in ways you never thought possible. I hoped that whenever this story was sent to the big or little screen the love would resonate on screen just as much if not more than on the pages of the book. Unfortunately what I have come to realize is that the book is much better than the television s

A Forgotten Book

When you have a list of over 400 books on your to-read list, you tend to forget that you put some of them on the list. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is one of those books. I used the randomizer on my Goodreads list to give me my next book after Landline. It gave me Station Eleven. I tried racking my brain, willing myself to recall when I put this on my list and my mind couldn’t come up anything. I guess that is what happens with over 400 books on your list. Station Eleven is about the post-collapse United States and Canada and the characters that have lived through it (and some that haven’t). A flu broke out in Toronto that had an incubation period of less than 24 hours once exposed. Only 1 in 3000 survived the outbreak. Everything is gone - electricity, internet, gas, everything that we take for granted all gone in a couple of years. The story moves back and forth between pre-collapse and post-collapse as well as between 3 main character lives. Spanning the co

Dean, Jess, Logan. Oh My!

Gilmore Girls. The fast-talking mother-daughter duo that turned up the notch on television writing is back on Thanksgiving night for 6 more hours of the dynamic duo and Stars Hollow. Lorelai, Rory, Lane, Luke, Michel, and Emily are all back to make us fall in love with Stars Hollow all over again. For some, this is a return to the magic they fell in love with almost 10 years ago. For others, they will learn about the Gilmore family for the first time and wish they had known them for 13 years like the rest of us. There are many questions being asked about the limited series return: are Luke and Lorelai married? How is the inn doing? What is Emily doing now that Richard has passed? More questions are being added every day but the one question that many people have been speculating and theorizing and placing bets on is who does Rory end up with? It recently came out that Marty - Rory’s freshman friend a Yale - will not be returning in the series so that leaves Dean, Jess and L

The Real Wall Street

**Spoiler Alert** Erin Duffy is a former wall street player, procuring a job in finance right out of college working her way up to analyst. In her novel Bond Girl, Duffy takes us on a fictional tale (some say not so fictional) of a recent college graduate's first job out of college - Wall Street. Alex Garrett has dreamed of a job on Wall Street - money, fame, expensive dinners, parties every night, everything a person can dream of working in the financial world. That is if you are a man. Alex believes her career in the financial world will give her the money and freedom to do whatever she wants, go wherever she wants and be whoever she wants. What she doesn’t realize is the true nature of the boys club that is the financial world. The minute she sets foot in the pit of Cromwell Pierce she is bombarded with male testosterone beyond anything she has ever known. Every stereotype of the male species is glorified in the first few chapters - secrets from the women, eyein

Fall TV: My Favorite Time of the Year

Every September I start to look forward to getting back into my daily routine - get up, go to the gym, go to work, come home, have dinner, and begin to watch and judge the best and worst new shows of the television season. Last season was a very good year for me and new shows. I added Quantico, Supergirl, Blindspot, Younger, DC Legends of Tomorrow, Life in Pieces, and Shadowhunters. 7 shows on top of the other 15 or so I watch on a normal basis. Yes, I will admit I have an obsession with television. But I am a creative person and I like to sit down at the end of the day and immerse myself into another world, another life, forgetting about my own for a couple of hours. This year, I have picked 7 shows out of the new ones that I find interesting enough to start watching: American Housewife Bull Designated Survivor Macgyver Kevin Can Wait Timeless Conviction Now that we are in the 2nd month of the new fall TV season, I have had the chance to watch a