Lily Haight

Tuesday morning I stepped out onto 3rd Avenue after hearing the doorman’s ominous “hope you have your umbrella” warning and realized, as my black flats filled with water, that summer had gone through an overnight transformation into autumn. I’ll admit, it was a slight overreaction due mainly to the rain, but even during these past… Read more

“I always arrive places a bit sweaty,” my friend Caitlin said consolingly, summing up my entire life in New York so far, as I met up with her in front of the Town Hall theater last night, panting and definitely more than a bit sweaty. I was late as usual, and had emerged from the… Read more

1. Billboard inspo. “Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment; I doubt whether any of us knows the meaning of lasting happiness. Even in our keenest pleasures there is scarcely a single moment of which the heart could truthfully say: ‘Would that this moment could last forever!’ and how… Read more

It’s Back to School! Back in elementary school my mom would always buy me a new pair of jeans for the new school year, so I have come to associate the smell of new denim as an indicator of going back to school and the beginning of autumn. Of course, in the Seattle area there… Read more

Saying “au revoir” to Mt. Rainier. No more are the days of me lugging two large suitcases through the city streets while simultaneously trying to read a map and avoid getting pick-pocketed, because now I know that light packing is the number one key to success. Although to tell the truth, I didn’t actually pack… Read more

Last weekend I was in the La Conner Museum of Northwest Art staring at a wall of garbage. I don’t mean garbage as in “a thing that is considered worthless or meaningless,” I mean that the art was actually garbage. Mandalas made out of bottle caps, a screen made out of blue plastic, pen caps,… Read more