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Romanticizing My Life: A Mental Health Day
Sometimes romanticizing your life means traveling somewhere beautiful. Other times, it means taking a mental health day, cleaning your home, playing Disney Dreamlight Valley, and watching WitchTok lose its collective mind. Here’s what an ordinary Monday taught me about enjoying life on my own terms.
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Stars Hollow by Day, New York by Night
If I could move into one fictional universe, I’d choose Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Give me charming neighborhoods, four beautiful seasons, friendships, coffee at Luke’s, and the occasional New York City adventure.
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I’m Not High Maintenance. I Just Know What I Like!
A Saturday adventure with Ronnie turns into a hilarious reflection on coffee, comfort, personal preferences, spirituality, and knowing exactly what I like.
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What Makes a House Feel Like Home?
A personal journal reflection on the people, places, memories, and little comforts that make a house feel like home—and the country cottage I still dream of owning.
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The Soundtrack of My Life: Music, Memories & Me
What do Frank Sinatra, Billy Idol, Def Leppard, Alan Jackson, and the Backstreet Boys have in common? Apparently, me! Take a musical journey through my Jersey childhood, favorite artists, family memories, and the songs that make life a little more fun. Then grab your journal and discover the soundtrack of your own life.
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Before Everything Followed Us Everywhere: What I Miss About 1970–2000
I don’t want to wake up in 1982, but I do miss some of what we had between 1970 and 2000: music with memories attached, malls full of life, neighborhoods buzzing with people, holidays that waited their turn, and the glorious freedom of simply being unreachable.
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I Don’t Want a Bigger Life — I Want a Fuller One
What do I want more of? Adventure, creativity, books, laughter, quiet and time to actually enjoy them. Maybe I don’t need a bigger life at all. Maybe I just want a fuller one—with more room for the things I love and less of those things surviving on whatever time is left over.
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It’s Cozy Season, What’s My Personal Definition of Cozy?
Cozy isn’t just blankets, candles, and pretty rooms. It’s fresh bread baking, familiar music, family memories, thunderstorms, soft pajamas, old movies, Ronnie and our animals, and a home that feels like it knows us. Here’s my very personal definition of cozy—and why I think it has more to do with how we live than how…
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The Books That Made Me a Reader
I grew up as the kid who could always be found in the library, checking out five to ten books at a time and reading to my heart’s content. Somewhere along the way, life got louder and I stopped reading as much. Now, at 56, I’m discovering something wonderful: I never really stopped being a…
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31 October Journal Prompts for Reflection, Fun & Everyday Life🍂
Thirty-one thoughtful, fun, sometimes quirky journal prompts for October—exploring books, home, nostalgia, everyday joy, spirituality, adventure, aging, laughter, and the wonderfully weird parts of being human. Answer one a day, choose your favorites, and come back next year to see how your answers have changed.
Bright life. Deep roots. Welcome in.
Latest Musings From Vividly Rae
- Romanticizing My Life: A Mental Health Day
- Stars Hollow by Day, New York by Night
- I’m Not High Maintenance. I Just Know What I Like!
- What Makes a House Feel Like Home?
- The Soundtrack of My Life: Music, Memories & Me
- Before Everything Followed Us Everywhere: What I Miss About 1970–2000
- I Don’t Want a Bigger Life — I Want a Fuller One
The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy. It’s all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn
She was made of contradictions — soft and stubborn, wild and deeply rooted.
