Equal Parts Homebody, Equal Parts Adventurer

2022 in Review

My first full year in Nashville was a momentous one. Here’s a look back in pictures of some of the highlights. 2022 was the year of the musical….. I saw ten* live stage shows this year, nine of which were musicals, including my FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, and FIFTH shows on Broadway. (I never did…

by Charlotte

My Year in Books: 2022

I read a lot of books this year. A LOT. My usual goal for my annual Goodread’s challenge is around 50 books, which I sometimes have handily accomplished and other times have woefully fallen short. I set the ambitious goal of 75 books this year as I read 90 books last year, but somehow, some…

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Three Months

In the year leading up to my 30th birthday, I set myself an ambitious goal to lose 100 pounds before I turned 30. It was the first year of my life that I consistently worked out, but the progress on the scale was nonexistent. The entirety of my effort focused on adding activity, not shifting…

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Have you ever seen anything more beautiful? This was a great read—don’t get scared off by the title. I missed the iCarly zeitgeist myself and this was still an enjoyable, hilarious, and emotional read. As of today, I am 3 months post op from bariatric surgery. I’ve almost lost 40 lbs since surgery, and since I began this journey I’ve lost 100 lbs. The past 3 months hasn’t been easy, but it has been rewarding! First nostalgic re-read of 2022 is live in my stories, Gertrude Chandler Warner’s first Boxcar Children book! On 5/23, I finally, after almost 2 years of waiting, had roux-en-y gastric bypass. All in all, the experience was very positive and I am so glad to be on this side of things. Check out the link in my bio for the details! Frolicking in front of monuments might be my favorite pastime A nighttime walk around the city the never sleeps…. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’ve been thinking about my mom a lot lately, with the impending celebration of Mother’s Day and my upcoming surgery. Read more about it in my latest blog. What a wonderful night at @bbowlnashville seeing @todrick on the #femulineworldtour My face hurt from smiling, my knees from jumping (#old), and my stomach from laughing with joy. The show encapsulated so much about what I love about the art of drag—being yourself unapologetically and loving yourself radically, and pushing yourself outside of narrow expectations. Todrick Hall is a marvelously giving performer—while it was obviously his show, it clearly brought him great joy to use his light to shine on others. So glad I spent my Monday at this show.

Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are my own.

© Charlotte Forstall, 2021