Welcome to the Inner Circle
This is where the veil lifts.
Here you’ll find personal reflections, behind-the-scenes chaos, and deep dives into the writing life—grief, growth, creativity, and all the messy magic in between. Some posts are heavy, some are silly, and some are just me figuring things out in real time.
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✨ Travel Thursday: Decade of Disney
Prologue – Planning ✈️ If there’s one thing I love, it’s planning. Trips especially. I always have a dozen itineraries tucked away—some lived, some still waiting, and some crafted for other people entirely. (Like our couple friends’ honeymoon in Ireland? Yeah, I planned that.) So when it came… Read More
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Some People Break Sooner: On Tolerance and Emotional Capacity
Cracks in the Same Glass Some people fall apart over things you’ve survived a hundred times.That doesn’t make them weak.It makes them human. We all have different emotional thresholds—different “maximum load” signs hanging somewhere deep inside us, whether we know it or not. What barely phases one person… Read More
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Same Story, Different Truths: On Perspectives
The Illusion of Shared Memory It’s wild how two people can live through the same exact moment and walk away holding completely different stories.Like some emotional Choose Your Own Adventure—except nobody’s choosing, and everyone’s crying by chapter three. We assume shared experience means shared understanding.But it doesn’t.It just… Read More
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Movie Monday: Review of Tower of Terror (1997)
“Before there was the drop, there was the curse.” 🏨 Room Service for the Soul There’s something about ghost stories set in hotels that always gets me. Maybe it’s the idea that grief checks in and refuses to leave, or maybe it’s because lobbies have that false sense… Read More
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🕯️ Ghost Town Girl: The Haunting of the Living
The Town That Still Knows My Name I live in a ghost town. Not the kind with boarded windows and dust in the corners, but one haunted by memory. Every street, every cracked sidewalk, every flickering porch light carries a version of me I didn’t mean to leave… Read More
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🪄 Travel Thursday: Harry Potter – A Forbidden Forest Experience (Inglewood, IL)
⚡ The Second Chance Years ago, I’d snagged tickets when The Forbidden Forest Experience opened in Virginia—but then I got pregnant, and apparently “wandering through dark, muddy woods while summoning spells” wasn’t considered ideal prenatal care. So when it came to Illinois this year, I wasn’t missing it.… Read More