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This Joy Report is my 32nd birthday reflections – quality time, gifts that are bigger than what they are, and joy for what’s next.

Every year, I make my own birthday cake – a little ritual that started from practicality and turned into something deeply meaningful. Here’s why baking your own birthday cake can be such a powerful tradition.

Welcome to The Joy Report this week: The Great Plant Rescue of 2025, QT with my friend Jenn, Proposalpalooza, joy being attractive and repellent I rescued all of the plants from a local restaurant that closed for remodeling and left them behind. I went to the closed space with the owner and we discovered that […]

Welcome to the Weekly Joy Report: picking up where I left off, new steps to grow in my business, pop culture content queen, planning my 32nd birthday

For a long time. I’ve wanted to do a weekly series, but I didn’t want to copy someone else’s idea or do something that wouldn’t fit me after a few weeks – then I came up with the Weekly Joy Report.

Not only did these come out PERFECT, I won the bake off. These are the ultimate Costco marshmallow crispy cookie dupe and they were really easy to make gluten free.

Like many people, turning 30 came with some big feelings. I think it was rather silly of me to think that I was going to avoid the big feelings after doing absolutely no work to that end. I didn’t realize it until it was too late, but I had a lot of (tbh, unrealistic) expectations […]