• baked mac & cheese with breadcrumbs + bacon
• beef stroganoff
• biscuits & gravy
• blended river manatee
• broccoli
• cajun chicken alfredo
• camp yogurt
• cauliflower
• dark chocolate
• egg salad
• gravy
• hard-boiled eggs
• jambalaya
• mexican food
• mexican-style rice
• peach italian sodas
• peach rings
• peaches
• peanut butter
• queso

• a series of unfortunate events- lemony snicket (series)
• anne of green gables- l m montgomery (series)
• bloomability- sharon creech
• dear evan hansen- val emmich
• diary of a waitress- carolyn meyer
• ella minnow pea- mark dunn
• factory girls- christine seifert
• from the mixed-up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler- e l konigsburg
• girls of july- alex flinn
• harry potter- j k rowling (series)
• hattie big sky- kirby larson
• little house on the prairie- laura ingalls wilder (series)
• little women- louisa may alcott
• matilda- roald dahl
• the fences between us- kirby larson
• the help- kathryn stockett
• the hunger games- suzanne collins (series...

• a burnt child loves the fire. (oscar wilde)
• as the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain & more precious, i feel less afraid that someone will erase me by denying me love. (jenny slate)
• be weird. be random. be who you are. because you never know who would love the person you hide. (c s lewis)
• courage, dear heart! (c s lewis)
• dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. (anne frank)
• eventually someone you love is going to be taken away. and then you will fall to the floor crying. and then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you're falling to the floor crying thinking "i am falling to the floor crying," but there's an element of the ridiculous to it- you knew it would happen and, even wors...

• stoicism
• revolutionary
• aesthetic
• illuminate
• petrichor
• actually
• counterintuitive
• anyways
• glory
• inherent
• inconsequential
• objectively
• eldest
• requiem
• meteorology
• magnified
• spontaneity
• ridiculous
• persistent
• obstinate
• cannot

• american history
• babies
• barn dances
• being nice to people
• big cities
• big words
• bike rides
• camp
• camp worship (it hits different)
• chilly camp mornings
• christmas lights
• christmas music
• color
• colorado
• dancing like an idiot
• deep conversations
• double exclamation marks (!!)
• driving with friends
• dry history books
• ducks
• finding beauty anywhere. rural north dako...

• beauty and the beast (2017)
• hamilton (2020)
• little women (2019)
• matilda (1996)
• newsies (broadway recording) (2017)
• o brother, where art thou? (2000)
• the help (2011)
• the princess bride (1987)
• the sound of music (1965)
• the wizard of oz (1939)
• to all the boys i've loved before + sequels (2018, 2020, 2021)
• up (2009)
• wall-e (2008)
• wonder (2017)

• a series of unfortunate events
• anne with an e
• downton abbey
• the chosen
• the mysterious benedict society

i am a child:

• curious george
• odd squad

that's all i never watch tv