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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: Review of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
“Pumpkins by day, Christmas lights by night—because we live in the in-between.” 🎭 The Pumpkin King’s Midlife Crisis Jack Skellington once said, “I have everything I ever wanted, and I’m still miserable.” Iconic. It’s the burnout anthem of our generation—he’s exhausted from being adored, trapped in the loop… Read More
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Gaslighting & Manipulation: The Mind Games No One Warned Me About
I used to think gaslighting was just a buzzword people tossed around on TikTok.Now I know it’s a slow erosion of the soul—an unraveling of your reality that makes you question everything, especially yourself. As someone who’s lived through it, I’ve learned this truth the hard way:manipulation doesn’t… Read More
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Photo Friday: Kids In Love
In honor of Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade getting married earlier this month, here’s a throwback to the shot I took of him performing at the last nationwide Vans Warped Tour. A moment frozen in sweat, sound, and summer nostalgia—before the curtain finally closed on an era. Read More
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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