nonfiction

thoughts, essays, and everything else
2026
MAY 26 2026 THOUGHT

Just shy of six months into this website, I have no idea if anyone is reading. (Just like high school!) Seemed like the perfect time to indulge the urge to redesign this whole website with a bit of nostalgia for the design elements I've always been drawn to...

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I'd only discovered their self-titled first album the year before in 8th grade at a Catholic school through the first girl I ever had a crush on. (I call it a crush now. Back then I didn't know you could use that word about girls, too.)

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JAN 5 2026 THOUGHT

A short intro to who I am, where I'm coming from, and my personal history of the internet jumbled up with a meditation on this site's opening and purpose. (Yes, I was diagnosed with ADD as an adult, how did you guess?!)

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Writing and the internet have been inextricably intertwined for me since I was 13 and learned html tags to post my fan fiction stories on message boards. I drafted everything I wrote in Notepad, adding bold and italic tags as I composed like they were quotation marks or em-dashes.

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