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"Your room looks like a museum," he told me the first time I let him into my bed. He traced the trinkets on my shelves, then paused to look at the wall covered in postcards. "The Museum of Envy."
I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a compliment, but I took it as one. The wall has changed since then. The postcards have made place for vintage maps of places I hope to visit again one day, for boarding passes from long ago trips, for bank notes from faraway places, for illustrations and pictures and images that would make my friends say: "Yeah, that's Envy."
My memory wall is a museum. The museum of me and everything I love.
Oct 7, 2024
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I went to my friend Matthew’s place years ago and he’d covered his walls in frames filled with small moments like a receipt from a first date, a number on a bar napkin, a hole in his wall – Years later, cities later, it’s my favorite way to fill my walls. I just picked up a crazy shadow box frame for a deck of cards I randomly got at David Blaine’s house one bizarre night last year.
Jul 14, 2023
Show off your interests. Show where you've been and what you've collected. Keep up old drawings to remind yourself how far you've come. Have fun with it it's your room. If I find a cute bit of paper or poster it will be going up on my walls when I get home.
Jun 4, 2025
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my childhood bedroom is covered in all of the scraps i collected through high school in a big rainbow gradient. it was my covid project to finally hang the shit i’d been collecting for years but it looks so cool whenever i go home to visit! also, all throughout college i would cover my walls with my postcards and scraps to fill the temporary space. one time my roommate and i started a snack wall where we hung up the wrappers from every new snack we tried & left sticky note ratings
May 20, 2025
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I'm a July baby. Growing up, I spent most of my birthdays alone. Some years because my friends had left the country. Some years because I'd left the country. Some years because I had no friends. And with every year passing, the pressure to spend my birthday surrounded by friends and family and to have a good time increased. Every year I felt like a failure when I couldn't make it happen. So I stopped telling people it's my birthday.
But today is my 28th birthday.
Jul 17, 2024
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I hadn't seen my friend since New Year's Eve. Now it was October, her wedding day, and she barely gave me the chance to gush over her gorgeous dress, her makeup, her jewelry.
"You look happier," she said. "Your energy has changed. It's much calmer now. I'm happy for you."
I love her for taking the time out of her special day to notice me like that.
Oct 13, 2024
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"If the two of you are so good together, why don't you make a move?" my friend asked me in a dream about the guy I was ever so slowly falling for. Those words echoed through my mind for months, from the first date till the final breakup.
Jun 14, 2024