Life Is About Creating Yourself

Small Wins

I tell my friends I’m spending my Friday evening doing chores and it’s true. I am heading into my birthday weekend and I don’t want […]

I don’t know much about the zodiacBut I’ve always liked the duality of GeminiThat’s why I was born two weeks early(or so I tell my […]

Fresh strawberry pie In the middle of June. Know: It will be okay With Love, Natalie

Writing is going well! I’m anxious to rewrite so much of it, but I have passed 30K wordcount of consecutive scenes since I started over […]

Yes, two days of book recommendations in a row because I absolutely devoured May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor over the last two […]

This is such a good book season and I’ve been looking forward to Casey McQuiston’s sophomore novel One Last Stop for over a year. Their […]

The magic is the room, quiet except for my fingers sailing across the keys. Backspace, pause, and on again. I run down the clock and […]

I have had an unexpected and difficult work week. One of those emotionally tough, emotionally on weeks where I felt my brain slowing and slowing […]

CompartmentalizeA word that means live your lifeAnd not: live your job With Love, Natalie

There is comedy hereIn the little tragedies that pile up in a dayPoke the stack of grievances and it falls apartYou have to laugh at […]