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 Tangled
When a Girl Raised in a Tower Finally Names Her Cage At first glance, Tangled looks like a bubbly Disney romp—singing, frying pans, a horse with boundary issues. But beneath the sparkles sits a story about a girl raised on weaponized affection, trying to make sense of a… Read More
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Bells, Besties & Bariatric Breaks 🔔
How Animal Crossing Kept Me Sane Through a Global Meltdown I’ve been playing Animal Crossing since the GameCube era—back when villagers still threw unfiltered shade and Tom Nook ran what can only be described as a full-on capitalist cult disguised as a mortgage system. It’s easily in my… Read More
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The Years That Happened While I Wasn’t Looking
A quiet reckoning after the world went still There are moments when a realization doesn’t arrive loudly. It doesn’t announce itself or demand attention. It settles in instead—heavy, unavoidable—until you’re forced to look at it directly. I didn’t live my way through my late twenties. Those years didn’t… Read More
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The Dating App Case Study: What Repetition Taught Me
At some point, dating apps stop feeling like possibility and start feeling like pattern recognition. Not because everyone is the same, but because the presentation is. Same photos. Same answers. Same claims. Different faces, identical scripts. This isn’t cynicism. It’s data collection. I stayed long enough to notice… Read More
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Music Monday: AJR
The Brothers Who Turned Quirk Into a Whole Damn Art Form Some bands arrive with fanfare.Others sneak in quietly and then suddenly occupy half your emotional landscape. AJR was the latter for me. A Little AJR History (Because You Can’t Appreciate Their Weird Genius Without Context) AJR is… Read More