Crafting your public persona, aesthetic, and emotional tone as a writer is extremely important. There’s a moment in every writer’s journey when you realize you’re not just writing a book. You realize you’re also, somehow, writing yourself. One chapter you’re wrestling with plot holes, and the next you’re wondering if your author photo should include…
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Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self (But She Would Ignore Me)
This is a bit of a love letter, a warning, and a gentle roast of myself. There are so many things I wish I could tell my younger self. Not because she was doing things wrong. It’s just that she was doing the absolute most with no information. She was a tiny chaos engine powered…
Killer Heels Saturday – Chapter One: She Had a Premise and a Pair of Pumps
Every book begins with a spark. Not a polite spark either but more like the kind that snaps, hisses, and threatens to burn your eyebrows off if you ignore it. This week we’re talking about the moment the idea for my book was born. The genre. The themes. The characters who started whispering in my…
Behind The Heels
Killer Heels “Stiletto” If you’ve been around for about 5 minutes you know I love a good reveal. A good rot day in bed. A good lemonade refresher from Starbucks and an oversized cable knit sweater. So welcome to my world of chaos and a sort of behind the curtain of writing my first book. I…
My Visual Calling Card
Artists typically have a signature. It’s not necessarily an actual signature but more of a thing that’s identifiable to everyone else. Think Van Goghs swirling brush strokes or Yayoi Kusama’s signature polka dots. Kusama is the reason I got into the creative world and started playing with bold colors. Her art was the first thing I saw that invoked a feeling. I knew immediately I needed to play with colors, and I knew immediately I needed to incorporate her in my home. I’ve followed…
Color Crush Series: Verdant Whisper
Vibe: Renewal, quiet growth, grounded optimism There are colors that shout, colors that seduce, and then there are colors that simply arrive softly, steadily, and like the truth you are finally ready to hear. Verdant Whisper is that kind of color. It doesn’t demand attention, it earns it through presence. Through patience and through quiet…
The Art of Being Dramatic on Purpose
Lately I’ve really found comfort in being dramatic about everything. Sometimes life, for me, just becomes so overwhelmingly chaotic that I can’t figure out if I’m going up or down. These past few weeks I’ve really decided to lean into dealing with it all in a very different way and weirdly, I’ve been far less…
The Myth of the Effortless Woman
There’s a certain kind of woman the world loves to mythologize. You know what I’m talking about. The woman who just rolls out of bed with the perfect hair, color coordinated pajamas, glowing skin, and the emotional stability of someone who has never once cried in a Target parking lot. She is the patron saint…
Color Crush Series: Imperial Yellow
Some colors whisper. Some colors scream. Some colors walk into a room wearing a crown, a five clawed dragon, and 3000 years of symbolism. They don’t need to speak. The color speaks for itself. Yellow may be one of the oldest colors, but it still manages to stay feeling fresh, modern, and wildly wearable in…
Ceramics: The Art Form That Never Dies
I’m in my expression phase and obsessed with finding different forms of expressions in the art world. While looking for a new medium to try, one of the many ones I’ve come across is ceramics. Before I start anything new, I need to know the history of it and decided I needed to share a…
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