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 Four Christmases
“You can’t spell ‘families’ without ‘lies.’” 🎁 The Art of the Exit Strategy Every Christmas, I watch Four Christmases. It’s one of those movies that gets funnier—and truer—the more you’ve lived it. The hopping from house to house, the polite smiles through exhaustion, the endless chorus of “you’re… Read More
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The Body That’s Never “Right”
I’ve been on both sides of body shaming. When I was bigger, people said I should lose weight.Now that I have, they say I’ve gone too far. Funny how no one ever stops to ask how I feel—they just measure their comfort against my body and call it… Read More
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Travel Thursday: Tarps Off Boys (For A Good Cause)
Where Hockey Meets Shenanigans There are two kinds of Michigan nights: the ones you forget, and the ones loud enough to rattle your ribcage. Monday, November 24 was one of the latter. We headed out for our second annual showdown between the Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs (yes, those Bulldogs… Read More
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👻 The Ghost in My Childhood Home
The Man and the Child None of us actually remember seeing them.My mom told us about it years later—at least a decade after it happened. Apparently, when we were really little—around three to five years old—all three of us kids saw the same thing: a man and a… Read More
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💙 Energy Hugs
What the Body Remembers I don’t have many memories of my Grandpa—I was eight or nine when he passed—but the ones I do have are vivid. Cemented.And the clearest of all? His energy hugs. Whenever we walked into the house, my Grams was there first—ready with her lipstick… Read More
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💀 Movie Monday: Review of Addams Family Values
🕯️ Thanksgiving at the Edge of Sanity Addams Family Values is the rare sequel that outshines the original—wickedly sharper, unapologetically stranger, and dressed head-to-toe in black humor. It’s a movie about family dysfunction served with cranberry sauce and arsenic. Released in 1993, it gave us one of the… Read More