I'm a nanny, and the woman I work for said something a few years back that has really stuck with me. She's an architect, an artist, and a mother and she wears those three hats beautifully. We were talking about creativity and the call we both feel to make things and balancing that with having jobs and careers. She said "it's all work." She talked about how people equating work to only things that earn them money does a disservice to people that feel called to do labor they ar

I've recently been trying to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life and I landed the same place I always land: I want to make things. I want to create art and music and other beautiful things, and that is the only thing I can stomach doing for 40 hours a week for the rest of my life. I have spent my entire stint of adulthood hoping that a creative career will fall into my lap while not doing much creation, which is silly. They say you need to dress for the job

A tell all of every song on my first album, because I wrote all these songs in high school and why not. I recently made the decision to take all my older work off of streaming platforms. I will be rerecording a bunch of the songs that still feel true to who I am, but unfortunately that won't include anything from my first album. To give it a proper send off, I've decided to tell you guys what all the songs are about! If you wanna give the album a listen so you know what I'm t

So you wake up on January 1, 2025 with bed bugs. What do you do? You inform your apartment building and get billed over $1,000 for an exterminator. You inform your employer and lose your job. You read every reddit thread there in on bedbugs until you're in an OCD spiral so bad you rip off your entire thumbnail and start having frequent panic attacks and a level of anxiety-induced nausea you haven't experienced since high school. In unrelated news, you have a heart palpitatio

So, I made a blog post in 2023 titled "These Are a Few of My Favorite Things," and reading it back, I'm perplexed. Some of the things listed are no longer my favorite, but some of the things listed I'm certain have never been my favorite. I made that original blog post just so the blog portion on my website wouldn't be empty and I never made any other blog posts. Now that I'm finally updating my website (and going to post regularly on my blog)* I want to set the record straig

In case you were curious what my favorite things are, I am providing them here in a convenient list format so that you'll never have to...