Hello, fellow human!
My name is Gabrielle, and I’m excited to connect with you. I’m a writer by nature, viewing the world with a poet-photographer’s eye since I was a small child. I carry that curiosity and wonder into adulthood with the mission of bringing the extraordinary into the everyday. Through brave honesty and tales of authentic living, I hope to inspire you to do the same.
My 2022 Mantra: Practice kindness, not criticism.
My 2021 Mantra: Know better, do better.
2022 Bookshelf
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
- The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig
- Trust + Inspire by Stephen RM Covey
- What I was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
- The Baby on the Fire Escape by Julie Phillips
- Nice Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
- Older, but Better, but Older by Caroline de Maigret and Sophie Mas
- Believe in People by Charles Koch & Brian Hooks
- The Best American Travel Writing 2020 edited by Robert Macfarlane
- The Adaptation Advantage by Heather McGowan & Chris Shipley
- The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
- Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
- New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan
- All Adults Here by Emma Straub
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson
2021 Bookshelf
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
- The Bee Keeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
- The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
- Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
- Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
- Push & Pull by Noah Berghammer
- A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
- this one wild and precious life by Sarah Wilson
- Destination Wellness by Annie Daly
- Sontag by Benjamin Moser
- Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
- The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
- How to Be a Family by Dan Kois
- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
- The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.
- A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
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