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Renting Everything Everywhere All at Once from Redbox last night was the best $2.99 I’ve ever spent. In a sea of movie remakes and sequels, Everything Everywhere All at Once is constantly, throughout its two hours and change runtime, slapping me in the face with newness. It isn’t afraid to…

Realizing this is half the battle. — Back in college, I was envious of people who’d come to class holding a cup of coffee. They seemed so professional and business-y, adults with a capital A. I, newly 18 and eager to own this brand new, sparkly “adult” title bestowed upon me, started occasionally bringing a cup of…

I’ve got some stuff in here that y’all probably wouldn’t believe. — Way, way back in January 2022, I declared that I was going to listen to 100 new (to me) albums in 2022. I was stuck in a rut of replaying tons of 2000s music. I needed some new new in my airwaves. The challenge was just the kick in the…

Every time I do this I feel like the main character. Because I am. — It’s been five months since I started my yoga practice. I think I like it more now than when I started. I never thought that I, Big Ni herself, would be a yoga girl. Yet, here I am downward dog-ing and child pose-ing like it’s my J-O-B. Yoga has become…

A short story OR the first chapter of a serial fiction series — who knows? — The first night I spent in Grandma’s beach house, alone, I woke up seven times. Awakenings one through six mirrored each other, each gripping my T-shirt and shaking my body, screaming that reality, in its thick solemnity, wasn’t real. The seventh existed in juxtaposition with its former selves: patient, welcoming…

I know I’m the last person to hear about this — but honey I’m here! — Word on the street is that our good sis Medium has a new tipping feature in their website. People (it’s me, I’m people) have been asking for something like that for a while. So, when I saw that lil’ button on people’s stories I was like:

The will-they, won’t-they relationship at its core kept me coming back every single week. — I recently started rewatching Zoey 101 on Paramount+, speeding through two seasons in a few short days. Zoey 101 was a popular Nickelodeon TV show from the mid-2000s that ran for four seasons. It starred Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney Spears’ little sister, as the main character Zoey. The show…

A poem about mental health — A choir of cynics lives in my throat, foul yet harmonious, roaring The melancholy massages my tongue, twists until it’s numb I become not a person but a mess of colors Pollock’s worst nightmare coughing on bated breath wondering when I’ll be painted over I give each singer a face: selecting…

A public diary entry written on 7/5/22 — My relationship with writing has become strained. As a writer or content creator in general, it’s expected of you to stay topical, to keep up with current events. But, my gosh, keeping up has felt like enduring one bitch slap after another. From people still trying to act like the…