🎸 My PT has a dad band (and more of a life than I do)

Who decided the fun stops once the roles start?

🌊 We drove to Lake Geneva without booking a hotel

💕 I told him at 17 he'd never be my priority

I'm also telling you why it's been quiet here for a few weeks.

💅 I spent $150 on my nails, felt guilty, and let myself enjoy them anyway

I'm also telling you why it's been quiet here for a few weeks.

🧡 Apparently I'm not as quiet as everyone thinks

Eighth grade me would not be surprised. Here's what happened in between.

🎂 I turned 32 and almost ended my engagement over my parents' approval

Thirty-two years old, and I almost traded my own happiness for theirs.

😳 I told Demetris I'm scared to be happy

Sitting next to him, out of nowhere. Here's what happened after.

⚽️ England scored twice in two minutes and I just... accepted it

What that taught me about believing before you have proof.

🚗 I picked the boring option and I'm not even mad about it

It wasn't loud. It wasn't impressive. It might be the most honest thing I've done all year.

📸 Someone told me I was doing my engagement photos wrong

I almost believed them, until I reminded myself this is MY vision.

🦋 I skipped my own engagement in my journal and didn't even notice

I was so busy listing everything hard, I walked right past my own good news.

✈️ We looked at flights to Brussels and I almost said yes

And then I remembered I always almost say yes.

🍋 Thomas is booked. Andrea’s on vacation. And I'm on my own.

The fires are still burning, but I'm taking the spa day anyway.

😮‍💨 I ghosted you. Turns out I needed to.

My therapist told me to leave the state. I'm working on it.

💍 From roommate to fiancée, and I still don't know what I'm doing

Penguins, a ruby ring, and me already spiraling by morning — per usual.

🍌 The banana or the bathroom (my body made me choose)

And in that moment I realized I've been trying to control something I never could.

😮‍💨 Waiting for May

I thought I was going in with good news. I wasn't wrong — but I wasn't finished either.

🫶🏼 Vanessa called me out and she wasn't wrong

So I deleted the recordings and asked myself: what would I tell a friend?

😓 I was on the verge of tears the whole walk home

On brain tumors, nerve shocks, and the walk that almost broke me this week.

💵 My complicated relationship with money

Free lunch, a school I couldn't attend, and the savings I quietly burned through — my money story is messy. Maybe yours is too.

📚 I made the account on Valentine's Day. I didn't post for a month!

The gap between "I'm going to do this" and actually doing it is where I've been living. Here's what finally moved me.

📌 You had your moment. Now what?

Consider accountability, lower stakes, and a very encouraging group of friends.

🥲 She told me I had permission (and I cried like I'd been waiting years to hear it)

Spoiler: I had been.

💭 The question that cracked me open (and might do the same for you)

It's 3 words. It'll take 30 seconds. And you might cry a little. Fair warning.

💚 She never asked for permission

A Women's History Month letter about my mom, my name, and the woman I'm slowly becoming