Danielle Rivest
Why I Do Not Belong To The City I Grew Up In
I’ve lived in three different provinces in my life, so I’ve never felt particularly attached to one place. That is, until I started feeling...
By Pretending To Be Perfect, I’ve Led Others To Believe That I Am
I have never claimed to be perfect, but perfectionism is the disease that grips my motives and mind. This is not who I am,...
Why Turning 23 Is Both Terrifying And Exciting
I feel the winter wind rolling in. It’s colder than I thought it would be, like a stranger seeking an embrace. It evicts the...
6 Powerful Songs That’ll Capture Everything You’re Feeling
What a rare thing it is to truly express raw, unfiltered emotion. As humans, authentic emotion is sometimes hard for us to comprehend, let...
Why I Hate When People Tell Me That I’m ‘Living My Best Life’
If expectations were a book, they would be like the dictionary; an endless supply of ever-growing, ever-changing definitions that I consistently stumble to reach....
What It Feels Like When They Treat You Like Their Favorite T-Shirt
It’s an unfortunate commonality that “used” has become an adjective to describe how people are treated. To feel kinship with an object is to...
7 Songs By ‘The Civil Wars’ That’ll Nurture Your Indie Folk Soul
Music, in all its intricacies and beauty, is one of the most precious tools of language to express the mundane, the complex, and the...
5 Poems That Will Make You Fall in Love With Language Again
Today is International Dylan Thomas Day! A notorious man of drink and free-spirited action, Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was a poet, a craftsman of the...
Why You Should Stop Idolizing Jack From ‘This is Us’
*Warning: spoilers ahead for “This is Us" 2.14.18*
Fan or not, it was impossible to make it through this past weekend without seeing a fiery...
I’m Happily Waiting For Love Because I Know It’s Worth It
In a day, we spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for buses, waiting in traffic, waiting on others. And, sometimes, it feels like...





















