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UNOPENED PRESENTS

Lately, I’ve been writing more about my childhood, about my brother, and about the day he died. I’m starting to understand how much that moment shaped the person I became.

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NO FAT CHICKS

I am fifteen when the Monica Lewinsky scandal becomes the background noise of the country. I am old enough to notice who gets protected and who gets punished. At school, the lesson arrives in a language I understand even more clearly.

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Home for the Holidays

I am so proud that my first PRINT essay is in the December 2025 issue of Molly My Magazine, available nationwide.

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What My Brother Ian Taught Me

To this day, my younger brother Ian is the person I’ve loved the most, thought about the most, and missed the most, the one who makes my heart ache and swell at the same time.

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A Holiday Survival Guide (for emotional folks)

If you're feeling a little anxious, overstretched, or simply not in the mood to be the cheerful, casserole-bearing version of yourself, here are a few things to remember—and ways to survive the holiday with your sanity (mostly) intact.

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Knowing When To Let Go of Love

Maybe it’s just the season of life I’m in — my 40s, where the stakes suddenly feel higher, self-knowledge runs deeper, and the tolerance for anything misaligned has worn thin…

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Plane Tickets and Platonic Love

Over the past few years, I’ve shared travel most often with my closest friends—a subtle lesson in how connection, at its most genuine, doesn’t always look like romance.

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Raised by Royalty

A tribute to my grandparents, the best people in my life now and forever.

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