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 aren't monetizing....

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 you want, but...

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 talking about it...