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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🎬 Movie Monday: The Bay Theatre — Suttons Bay, MI
🕯️ From Family Legacy to Community Magic Originally owned by the Bahle Family until 2018, The Bay Theatre was a beloved landmark until the owners announced they’d be shutting it down. The town of Suttons Bay wasn’t about to let that happen. They rallied together, transforming The Bay… Read More
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Road Rage & the Stories We Don’t Know 🚗
✨ A Hex, a Heart, and a Heavy Sigh ✨ I’m writing this last-minute because a 17-year-old pregnant girl was killed in a road rage shooting in Louisiana earlier this week. Her baby survived—but she is without a mother now because someone chose violence instead of empathy. The… Read More
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💳 Plastic Promises & Financial Phantoms: The Credit Card Curse
🎬 Act Two of My Debt Saga If student loans were the villain who cornered me in Act One,credit cards were the shadow lurking in the background—waiting for their cue. To be fair—student loans did give me one gift:a shiny credit score. ✨Which meant that by the time… Read More
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Let Me Take the Damn Photo 📸
Or: How I Learned to Stop Apologizing and Just Snap the Shot Born With a Lens in Hand I am a photographer.Not just by trade—but by instinct, by heart, by survival. I document life.Always have. Always will.(If there’s no photo, did it even happen?) A Family of Memory… Read More