Hello! You can call me Bella, even though that's not my real name, or you can call me anything you like because I'm just a little disembodied critter on the internet.
The title of my blog is a sort-of portmanteau of two things which matter greatly to me: one is Elliott Smith's music ("Southern Belle") and the other is antifascism ("Bella Ciao"). But I suspect that I will mostly write about neither of these things, because I have other things I would like to write about and both of the former have been written about already at great length by very intelligent and articulate people.
I like hiking, backpacking, foraging, and playing the guitar. I study the dismal science and tend to wish I didn't. I frequently live in my own head; this is my earnest attempt to live outside of it a bit more.