Taurus season is here and this is where softness becomes power. Taurus seasons arrive like a deep exhale. It’s the moment your shoulders drop, your jaw unclenches, and your body remembers what pleasures feel like. After the chaotic spark of Aries, Taurus is the cosmic permission slip to slow down, savor, and build something beautiful…
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The Emotional Archive: How Women Remember
Women don’t just remember events. Our memories aren’t files, they’re texture, colors, and tiny altars we carry inside us. We remember temperature, tone, the way someone’s voice dipped on the last syllable, and the exact shade of sky when something shifted inside us. Women’s memories aren’t linear timelines, they’re more like emotional archives. A private…
Killer Heels Saturdays — Chapter Five: Character Development “Building a Cast With Bite, Boundaries, and Big Main Character Energy”
There comes a moment in every book draft where your characters are no longer just names in a Google Doc and you begin to realize they’re roommates in your brain. They have opinions. They have emotional allergies. They have better boundaries than you on a Tuesday afternoon. And suddenly, you’re not just writing a story….
Printmaking: The Original Social Media
As part of my art history series, I thought this topic would be fun to talk about next. Before we had feeds, timelines, and share buttons, we had ink, pressure, and a whole lot of ingenuity. Long before the internet connected billions of people, printmaking connected entire societies by spreading images, ideas, gossip, political messages,…
Color Crush Series: Charcoal
Charcoal is the color of containment. A color of clarity and says, “I’m here to protect my peace.” In a world that often demands sparkle and speed, charcoal is the visual pause. It’s the shade that says, “I’m not available for the chaos, but I am available for the truth.” Charcoal is the scaffolding behind…
Killer Heels Saturdays — Chapter Four: Plotting in Lipstick — Building a Story That Slays
There comes a moment in every writer’s life when you look at your cute little premise, your shiny protagonist, your Pinterest board full of vibes, and you whisper, “Okay… but what actually happens?” Welcome to Plotting in Lipstick, the chapter where I finally admit that a book is not, in fact, a 300‑page mood board….
Things I Wish People Knew About Lupus (Without Me Giving a TED Talk)
Living with lupus is like having a moody roommate who never pays rent, touches all your stuff, and occasionally sets off the fire alarm for no reason. I don’t want to give a TED Talk about it mostly because I don’t have the blazer, the headset mic, or the emotional bandwidth but there are a…
CREATIVE CHAOS APRIL NEWSLETTER
Welcome to April. The month that can’t decide their mind on what the weather should be and strutted in wearing a pastel trench coat and a bad attitude, and honestly, I respect her for it. This month is serving arts festivals, juicy book drops, and social media chaos so specific it feels personal. Here’s to…
Killer Heels Saturdays- Chapter Three: Author Branding In Killer Heels
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…
Color Crush Series: Tyrian Purple
The original luxury pigment. It’s born from sea snails, worn by emperors, and still casting a spell. Tyrian Purple wasn’t just discovered, it was extracted, painstakingly, from the mucus of Murex Sea snails by the Phoenicians around 1500 BCE. The city of Tyre, which is modern day Lebanon. It became the epicenter of this dye’s production,…
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