The Art of Making Life Magical(the newsletter) From propaganda to preparedness 08.10.2025 This week, history sure is ringing the echoes hard and loud: tariffs are here, and it’s another stepping stone toward a new depression era. I often get accused of fear-mongering, but pointing out parallels and using them to be prepared is the calm solution for the chaos that keeps getting louder day by day. When I was in college, my favorite professor and mentor had a favorite phrase: Good history is...
7 days ago • 2 min read
The Art of Making Life Magical(the newsletter) More whimsy. More wonder. More rebellion. 08.06.2025 In the last week I've had conversations with no less than 5 friends about how we're all in a phase of infusing our homes and lives with whimsy and wonder. Maybe it's because the world has lost it's damn mind - or this mercury in retrograde is truly revealing what our souls need? I dunno... but I do know that infusing joy into our lives is the best plan I know to combat the chaos being thrown at...
10 days ago • 1 min read
The Art of Making Life Magical(the newsletter) More whimsy. More wonder. More rebellion. 08.03.2025 Hey love bug - has the world been feeling extra heavy to you lately? Because same. And the more I watch what’s going on out there, the more I’ve been craving whimsy and wonder... not as an escape, but as an act of rebellion. I’ve been leaning hard into what I’m calling my Magical Pixie Soul era… and I think you might love it, too. NEW ON THE BLOG:Why I’m choosing glitter over gloom (& you can...
13 days ago • 2 min read
The Art of Making Life Magical A simple ritual for collective change 07.23.2025 Every day, I live on the corner of practical and magical.I stir spells into my coffee and understand the science behind why intention works.I light incense and also know exactly how to throw a punch. Both matter. Because magic isn’t about escaping reality — it’s about reshaping it.It’s not a performance. It’s a practice.One rooted in knowing that thoughts are energy, and energy creates reality. That’s not just...
25 days ago • 1 min read
The Art of Making Life Magical Embracing the shadow season 07.20.2025 Mercury is retrograding harder than I've seen in a LONG TIME. Right before retrograde started (because it affects about a week before and after it happens), our truck broke down on the way home from Florida. Then things seem to be escalating on the political front and the founder of The Heritage foundation died this week. When I tell you that Mercury Retrograde is the season of the universe purging and of revealing dark...
28 days ago • 1 min read
I have a confession: I've never seen a single episode of Stranger Things But I don't have to have watched it to understand The Upside Down. It's this dystopian world where everything seems to be reversed, right? Yeah... that's what America feels like right now. And if you're feeling it while everyone around you is going on like nothing has changed and you feel like a madwoman.... YOU ARE NOT ALONE. NEW BLOG POST: When the World Feels Upside Down Waking Up From Hypernormalization The other...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
*Gently peeks out of hiding* Oh how I've missed you! It's been a couple of weeks since I've sent out a newsletter - but with good reason 😊 Almost two years ago when we first found this house, we knew full well that two empty nesters did not really need a 4800 sq ft house.... However, when I walked through it the first time, I had a vision: We could hold retreats here. At the time I didn't really have a sense of why or how, I just knew it would be the perfect space for it... and I was...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Yesterday, we marched.We raised our voices.We reminded the world: we will not be silent, and we will not be small. And today? Today, I’m puttering. Zhushing. Dilly dallying. Not because I’m disengaged—but because I know how to refill my own damn cup. Because I know that beauty, rest, and joy are protest, too. NEW BLOG POST:The Sacred Art of Dilly Dallying If you've been here awhile... you'll know that there is nothing on earth I love more than just puttering around my house. Room redos....
2 months ago • 1 min read
Lately, there’s been this heavy hum beneath the surface, a sadness sitting like a fog in our bones.But the deeper I feel into it (and ask you directly)... I’m realizing something big:That sadness?It’s not weakness.It’s rage that never got permission to rise.And today I wanna talk about it. Because ALL emotions are valid... but some are more effective for change than others. NEW ON THE BLOG They Taught You to Cry Instead of Scream. Let’s Change That. I’ve been watching this wave roll through...
3 months ago • 2 min read