Archive - Blow Up Your Life

Unheroic Conduct

When I was 20, I saw my American friends get attacked by a group of Israeli men by the Kineret. The attack revealed truths about zionist chauvinism, and…

Jul 9 •

June 2025

Is it possible to access real fun in 2025?

Post-covid nostalgia for pre-covid misery.

Jun 26 •

January 2025

2024, a year spent distracted

My Spotify Wrapped was disheartening, I had discovered so little…distraction is a form of censorship

Jan 1 •

May 2024

Gratefulness vs. Dignity.

Manhattan Life 2024

May 2, 2024 •

January 2024

Convolescence Food Journal

My new life with no complexity of palate.

Jan 7, 2024 •

Becoming Donna Vissuta

Moving back to New York and aspiring to be a "donna vissuta", a woman of experience.

Jan 4, 2024 •

July 2023

Info dump: everything that's happened from February to present

Work won't set you free.

Jul 12, 2023 •

February 2023

I Miss New York

I went to Berlin searching for the city I imagined New York used to be. I thought I’d find the missing grit I longed for in old photographs of Soho.

Feb 2, 2023 •

December 2022

How my January 2022 manifestation list manifested:

This thing—this sorority girl pagan subculture—helped me.

Dec 30, 2022 •

November 2022

Disenchanted with Berlin

It is distinctly possible to stay too long at the rave (as Joan Didion said).

Nov 11, 2022 •

July 2022

High School Class Trip to Poland

I'll never forget what a shitty time I had trying to figure out the right thing to feel.

Jul 13, 2022 •

May 2022

Dimes Square Anxiety Attack

I posted and distributed the wrong draft of this essay a half hour ago because I am a professional.

May 6, 2022 •

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