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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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
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Pickles, Presents, & Pizelles 🎁✨
The Holidays That Built Me Growing up, holidays were stitched together with memory and magic—and more ham than any one family could possibly justify. Some traditions were loud and proud (cue the turkey coma), while others whispered quietly through the years—like a green glass pickle hidden among Christmas… Read More
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Music Monday: My Favorite Male-Fronted Bands ♂️
Unlike the chaos of choosing my female-fronted Ghoul Squad, this list came together like a clean tarot spread—five cards, five energies, zero hesitation. These are the men (and one ginger demigod) who have narrated entire chapters of my life. 1. AJR: The Unexpected Obsession I met AJR in… Read More