How I Navigate Creative Slumps With Humor and Self‑Compassion There are two kinds of pain in this world, the kind you get from wearing heels you had no business wearing or the kind you get from staring at a blank page until it starts to feel personal. Both hurt. Both make you question your life…
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Welcome to the Revamp Era: The Blog Glow Up Nobody Warned You About
There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she looks at her blog, her digital child, her creative scrapbook, her public diary she pretends isn’t a diary and realizes… “Oh. This isn’t me anymore. This is the ghost of a girl I’ve already outgrown.” My blog started as a cute little creative corner. A…
Killer Heels Saturdays – Chapter 7: Dialogue That Bites Back
If plot is the runway, dialogue is the heel clicks that turn every head. It’s the sound of your characters announcing themselves, their wounds, their wit, their boundaries, their bad decisions, and all without a single paragraph of exposition. And when dialogue bites back, it doesn’t just entertain. It reveals. It exposes. It shifts power….
COLOR CRUSH SERIES: TERRACOTTA
Terracotta showed up in my week like a calm older sister who’s seen some things. She didn’t knock, she just let herself in, sat on my counter, and said, “Babe… breathe.” And honestly? I needed that. There’s something about this color that feels ancient in the best way, like it remembers who you were before…
The Days My Body Cancels Plans Before I Do
There are days when I wake up feeling like a woman who could run a small country before lunch. I stretch, I sip my ice cold water, I glance at my to‑do list, and suddenly I’m possessed by the spirit of a hyper competent CEO who color codes her life and thrives on productivity. I’m…
Killer Heels Saturdays: Ch 6 — Writing Rituals & Red Soles: How I Actually Get Words on the Page
There’s this myth that writers glide into their desks every morning like swans, open their laptops, and effortlessly pour out brilliance while sipping something herbal and morally superior. I, Me. Myself… am just not that writer. Not even close. My process is more “creative gremlin with good snacks” than “ethereal literary goddess.” But it works….
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…
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