The Overgrown Footpath

My Recent Reads and Various Wanderings

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A review of Tara Westover’s Educated…and a tribute to the book club that got me to read it

*Warning: contains spoilers!*            

If you’re anything like me and you’re constantly engaged in a relentless quest to find inspiring memoirs, you have likely come across a mention of this profoundly moving book at some point. A brief Google search or a cruise through Goodreads yields all of the information you need to know about the waves Westover’s memoir created in the literary community.… Continue reading

Pandemic Planes

“9 in the morning on a Tuesday? This is unreal,” my mom exclaims as our car pulls up to the curb outside of Reagan National Airport. We are greeted by little more than vast emptiness on the expansive curb, with a couple of distant figures milling about outside the sliding doors that lead to the check-in area.… Continue reading

Old and New Homes: Revamping my College Dorm Room

Family photos, books, and innumerable National Geographic issues adorned the library, my favorite room in my grandparents’ house.

A few days after my grandpa passed, I walked through every room in my grandparents’ house and captured footage along the way. My camera glided across spaces and objects that have always occupied prominent positions in my collection of fond childhood memories – the painting of a beach fence adorning the wall near the front door, the dusty typewriter in the corner of the front hallway, the creaky wooden stairs that I recall standing on at three years old.… Continue reading

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