Category: Reflection
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Every Day, Another Lie
Every day brings a new atrocity—and a new justification. A poem about noise, lies, and refusing to mistake exhaustion for consent.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — When the World Goes Dark
Things feel bleak and biblical lately—politics, hate, the world unraveling. Not a sermon, but a whisper of survival: not yet, not like this.
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📚 Book Review: Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong
Genre: Cozy FantasyRating: ★★★★★Buy It Here: Amazon | Barnes & Noble I Didn’t Expect to Love This Genre as Much as I Do I would’ve never guessed that queer cozy fantasy would end up being one of my favorite genres—but here we are. Keeper of Magical Things surprised me in the best possible way. Julie…
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Into the Unknown: Why Over the Garden Wall Is the Perfect Autumn Ritual
Over the Garden Wall isn’t just a show — it’s an autumn ritual. A journey through haunted woods, half-remembered songs, and the beautiful in-between where childhood and memory fade into the Unknown.
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Quick, Clever, and Full of Heart: How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps
How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps doesn’t try to be perfect—and that’s part of its charm. It’s quick, clever, and highly enjoyable, especially for readers who grew up on RPGs, video game mechanics, and classic save-the-world setups. From the start, we follow Yui, an underdog who’s not “the chosen one” by…
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There and Back Again: A Hobbit Day Reflection
“There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”—Samwise Gamgee September 22nd is Hobbit Day. And every year, I come back to the same place: Middle-earth. Not because it’s trendy, and not just out of nostalgia, but because I need the escape. I need stories like this—the kind that pull me out of…
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📚 Book Review: The Humans by Matt Haig
Genre: Contemporary / Speculative FictionRating: ★★★★☆Publisher: Simon & SchusterBuy It Here: Amazon Barnes & Noble ✨ Strange, Funny, and Quietly Profound Some books sneak up on you, and The Humans is one of them. At first, it’s just funny and odd—an alien trying to figure out why humans love peanut butter sandwiches, math, and awkward…
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Countdown to 40: Publish the Damn Book.
One Year, One Book, No Excuses. Today I turn 39, and I’m officially putting the universe on notice: by the time I turn 40, I’m publishing a book. Not thinking about it, not quietly tinkering while making excuses. A real book. With my name on the cover. Something you can hold, read, spill coffee on,…
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The Times I Was Here
My daughter is seven, and this is her second year playing softball. Instructional league. That beautiful, chaotic mix of learning and laughing, missed catches, tiny victories, and too-big helmets. She loves it. Lives and dies with every swing, every play. And I’ve found myself just… there. Not loud. Not hovering. Just steady.Watching—just a bit back…
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📚 I’ll Read It Eventually: Confessions of a Book Buying Addict
There are worse addictions, right? I tell myself that every time I walk out of a bookstore with a bag full of stories and the quiet knowledge that, realistically, I might not read half of them this year. Or next year. Or… ever? But that doesn’t matter. Because I didn’t just buy paper—I bought possibility.…