Category: Creative Musings
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Fire pit on Anchor Inn on the Bay’s private beach in Traverse City (2016)—the kind of spot that feels like it’s seen a thousand summer nights and still has room for a thousand more. There’s something about a weathered fire pit on the sand that instantly drops you into nostalgia mode. Late nights, lake breeze,…
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Some songs are written in the heat of the moment.This one was written after the body was already cold. Before we get into it, here’s how this post works. These lyrics are read without context—no backstory, no personal history, no explanation of who or what inspired them. Just the song as it exists on the…
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When Forgetting Looks Easier Than Feeling Some films ask you to think. Eternal Sunshine asks you to bleed a little.It opens with Joel—soft, anxious, chronically self-editing—choosing to erase Clementine after she erases him. Not because their love wasn’t real, but because the pain of remembering feels heavier than the risk of losing the story entirely.…
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This is something I think about more than I probably should. There is not one version of you walking around in the world. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, scattered across conversations you don’t remember, moments you didn’t realize were pivotal, and people who walked away long before you ever felt finished becoming. The You That…
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“You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God’s sake.” 🕯️ Soft Resets and Suitcases There’s no better way to start a new year than with The Holiday—a movie about two women who quite literally swap lives to find themselves again. It’s a rom-com on paper, sure, but underneath all the…
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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 year?This year I hit the damn goal.The…
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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 evidence and basically said: “Oh, babe… you…
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“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 and The Twilight Zone had an unhinged…
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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 the most mundane way possible—Pandora shuffle while…