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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Photo Friday: The Tower’s Hidden Palette
Tower of London (2019)—proof that even the darkest corners know how to put on a light show. I’m obsessed with how this photo turned out: the cool blues pouring through the window, the warm golds clinging to the stone, that little pocket of green glowing like it’s keeping… Read More
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✨ New Year, Same Witch — But Finally a New Chapter
Resolutions for 2026 The Year I Actually Have Something to “Resolve” Every year I make the same joke: my resolution is to lose weight, then I shrug dramatically, mutter “ope,” and declare I’ll try again next year once it inevitably fizzles out by the seventh sunrise. But this… Read More
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Music Monday: What My Favorite Bands Reveal About Me 🤘
Or: I Fed ChatGPT My Top 5 Lists and It Read Me for Filth So, after dropping my last two Music Monday blogs into ChatGPT—the ones where I lovingly gushed about my top five female-fronted bands and my top five male-fronted bands — the machine looked at the… Read More
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🍿Movie Monday: Review of Gremlins (1984)
“Don’t feed them after midnight.” 🎬 Cute, Cursed, and Comforting We’re closing the year with one of my absolute favorites—Gremlins. The perfect mix of cozy and chaotic, where holiday lights meet horror tropes and one small mistake turns into a town-wide apocalypse. It’s what would happen if Hallmark… Read More
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Brake Lights & Breaking Points 🚦
🚨 The Night Everything Crashed Ironically, we had just left the ER. I was dealing with the worst period cramps of my life—pain so blinding it felt like white noise behind my eyes. They drugged me up, and we were finally headed home. Thankfully, my mom had the… Read More
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Photo Friday: Popcorn & Chaos, Anniversary Edition
Jessie and Ryan (2018) — celebrating six years the only way that makes sense for them: by turning a movie theater into a popcorn snow globe. This little anniversary shoot was pure chaos in the best way. Popcorn everywhere, bad jokes, zero coordination, maximum joy. Honestly, this is… Read More