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29 things I hope to learn in the next 29 years
Like I mentioned last week, as I turn 29 this month, there has been so much I’ve learned in my 29 years. But there is so much left for me...
Amy Rohozen
Nov 19, 20222 min read
29 things I've learned in 29 years
There’s something about my birthday that reminds me that I’m a writer. I think it’s the fact that birthdays tend to make us introspective...
Amy Rohozen
Nov 12, 202211 min read
The fictional world I’d most like to live in
I don’t know if it’s still a thing, but back when I was in high school and middle school, I remember that there were a thousand-and-one...
Amy Rohozen
May 21, 20223 min read
Time to rant about the concept of “required reading”
Is this my favorite topic? My least? It’s certainly one of my more practiced perspectives. And when I say “practiced,” I mean to myself....
Amy Rohozen
Apr 23, 20228 min read
The drive of creativity
Since I was a child, I always wanted to be considered “artsy” and creative. When I was young, the options presented to me always appeared...
Amy Rohozen
Apr 16, 20225 min read
The whole “former gifted kid burnout” is real. But I don’t regret it.
Have you ever read confessions of “former gifted kids?” When I write it like that, all it evokes in me is the concept of “former child...
Amy Rohozen
Mar 12, 20228 min read
It's about time for a superhero origin story: anxiety edition
Maybe you can tell I have anxiety because it's written all over me and everything I do. It comes up a LOT, and I don’t just mean in every...
Amy Rohozen
Feb 26, 20226 min read
Let’s agree to stop using the phrase “get back to normal” about life post-pandemic
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve heard the phrase “get back to normal” as a way of referring to the global pandemic a LOT. Let’s...
Amy Rohozen
Feb 19, 20225 min read
It feels almost tacky to talk about the “good things” that came out of a global pandemic.
And truly, it’s no wonder. Have you seen the way the world has been devastated by COVID-19? If I tried to list all the bad things that...
Amy Rohozen
Feb 12, 202210 min read
In a life where the refrain is always “more, more, more...”
...I am trying to figure out how to be comfortable saying, “I’m good, thanks.” Disclaimer: I know everything I’m about to write about...
Amy Rohozen
Jan 29, 20227 min read
One of the hardest things I still have to learn is how to be unproductive.
Screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons as captured in tweet from @_baomii I like to think of myself as “productive girl...
Amy Rohozen
Jan 22, 20227 min read
I’m a homebody still learning how to be a homebody
I’m not someone who does a lot of traveling, don’t want to be either. Why sleep in a hotel or an AirBNB when you can sleep wrapped in...
Amy Rohozen
Jan 1, 20224 min read
Spoiler alert: Living through a pandemic sucks if your entire self-worth is fueled by productivity.
For a moment, let’s skip right around the fact that a mindset where your self-worth is fueled by how much you produce does not come...
Amy Rohozen
Nov 27, 20217 min read
This is 28 and this is the first birthday I’m afraid of.
I would have guessed this feeling would have waited until the infamous 30th birthday, but I guess in this, like in all things, I am...
Amy Rohozen
Nov 20, 20214 min read