Jul 30, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Magic, Magick, Radical Self-Love
I wonder if fireflies know they’re special. One of my favoritest things about growing up in the suburbs of Chicago was the fireflies. I loved watching them light up my front yard and chasing them down to catch them in my hands. It felt like magick. But my man, who...
Jul 22, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Radical Self-Love
I sat at the foot of the bookcase, reading my yearbook from 7th grade. I didn’t have any messages from friends. (I don’t know why I didn’t get it signed that year.) But I had tons of messages about other people written in my own hand. I even had a...
Jul 15, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Freedom, Magick, Radical Self-Love
I still remember the list. I can see it in my mind—all the great and amazing things I still wanted to accomplish taking up the bottom half of the page in some throw-away notebook. (Funny considering I can’t remember if I wrote at the dining table in my condo or...
Jul 9, 2024 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Radical Self-Love
“As long as I can look myself in the mirror and know I did my best, then I’m good.” A client said this to me as we chatted her experience in a workplace that seems to run off dumpster fires and coffee. On the surface, it’s a great sentiment. I’m a firm believer in...
Jan 9, 2018 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration
“I’ve always wanted to go to Comic-Con,” I tweeted to her. She was a published author—with a THREE book deal. And someone I really looked up to. “But I’m worried that I’m not geek enough to fit in.” Didn’t matter that I loved cosplay, video games, Dungeons + Dragons,...
Jan 2, 2018 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration, The Writing Life
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! (I wish I was tech savvy enough to program a really cool virtual glitter cannon to fire when arrive here, but since I’m not, how about we just pretend?) *fires 18 glitter cannons* Welcome to the new year! You’ve been on my mind a lot over the past...
