The Best (and Worst) Books I Read in 2024
Of the 62 books I read in 2024, three to pick up, and three to stay away from.
Read More32 Things
In 32 years I have carved out a little space for myself in a particular corner of the world, and I’m happy to be there. Along the way, I’ve learned lessons and come to certain conclusions. Part of getting older is that you start to know what you don’t know, and there is a lot I don’t know, but here’s 32 things I do.
Read MoreWith the Pack
I was not a high school or college athlete. Running came to me, or rather, I came to running, a little later in life. Because of this, I never thought of it as a team sport.
Read MoreI Rushed a Sorority and All I Got Was This Muumuu
I was updating the digital storage for my pictures from my time as a sorority girl—ten-plus years ago—and the reason I didn’t relate to the Bama Rush girls became clear: Greek life at my college was weird.
Read MoreI Broke Up with Skincare
Every time I open TikTok, interspersed between my cat videos and “easy” vegan recipes and corporate funnies, there’s a woman doing her skincare routine. Or her hair. Or her makeup. And she likely just took an “everything shower.”
And it makes me very tired.
Read MoreStuff I (Begrudingly) Know About Now That I Am Old
There is a dark side of living and learning, and that is that you have to accumulate knowledge of things that either bore you to death or just bum you the fuck out.
Here are some of the things I have learned that I wish I hadn’t.
Read MorePlot Twist: I'm Into Tarot
This morning, I pulled the Eight of Wands.
Eight: Mastery. Correspondence with Strength (the eighth card of the Major Arcana). Wands: Creativity. Energy.
As good of vibes as one could hope for when sitting down to write.
Read MoreA Letter From My 15-Year-Old Self
My parents found a sealed envelope with my handwriting that said:
To Be Opened By Hannah Bauer ONLY on 01/22/2021
I figured three years late was better than never. (In hindsight, I prefer never.)
Read More"BookTok Made Me Read It!"
A 2023 reading retrospective.
Read MoreThe Year of Experiments
2024 is the year of experiments. Because I said so.
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