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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 […]

I wanted to stay grounded while dating without losing hope. So I made a dashboard that helps me tell the truth—to myself, first.

This year, I broke up with my boyfriend of 9 years and moved out of the house we’d shared for 5. It was both the hardest and best thing I think I’ve done so far in my life, and I’m still processing life after a breakup of a relationship that took up that much space […]

I’m just beginning my Soft Girl Era – it’s got nothing to do with finding a partner to do things for me. It’s more about ditching all of the exhausting people-pleasing and self-sabotaging habits that have left me feeling drained and stressed out in pretty much every aspect of my life, up to and including my romantic relationships.