About Me

                                           

Welcome to My Wild Creative Universe

Five degrees later (because apparently I'm a professional student with a serious addiction to learning), I've collected majors in literature and mental health counseling like some people collect vintage teacups. My Masters in the study of the human mind and behaviors sits pretty on my wall, whispering secrets about what makes us all beautifully, magnificently human.

The Plot Twist

I thought my psychology days were behind me—filed away like old love letters—but the universe had other plans. A dream opportunity knocked, and now I'm back in the mental health world, working remotely for an organization that gets my soul, while simultaneously chasing that LPC goal I've been flirting with for years. Sometimes life writes better stories than we do.

My professional past reads like a choose-your-own-adventure novel: top-tier remote support specialist (where I learned that patience is indeed a superpower), receptionist extraordinaire, counselor's assistant, and case manager for a nonprofit that taught me how hope looks when it's dressed in everyday clothes.

The Secret Writer Life

Plot twist number two: I've been living a double life as a published poet since my youth, hiding behind pseudonyms like a literary superhero. The writing never stopped—it just got more serious, more confessional, more willing to bleed ink onto paper. Over 80 poems have found homes in various online and print ezines and journals, and I've been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web more times than I can count on my coffee-stained fingers.

Where the Magic Lives

This webpage is my gallery of wild becoming—a digital exhibition of everything my hands and heart create. You'll find my professional gallery where you can order prints of original artwork that make walls sing, and my book collection waiting to be discovered and devoured. My Etsy shop overflows with digital scrapbook kits and handmade treasures like earrings that catch light and conversation.

But here's the beautiful thing about abundance: I've curated mountains of freebies because art should flow like water, reaching everyone. Check the top bar for free art journal kits and coloring books that cost nothing but promise everything.

The Slow Living Revolution

My private world tastes like morning coffee and evening tea, smells like bookstore air and café conversations. I'm a quarterly traveler with a personal library that's staging a revolt against my walls (so many books, so little time). Live music feeds my soul—I try to catch a favorite band every couple of months because some things can't be streamed, only experienced.

My hands know the language of journal writing, art journaling, and paper crafting. I bake stories into bread, cook love into soup, watch nature like it's the best television show ever created. Armchair travel and great films fuel my creative fire, and lately, I've been learning to play a lovely pink acoustic guitar because why not add music to the symphony?

I'm a professional student of life—always enrolled in something through Udemy, Skillshare, or Coursera because curiosity is my chronic condition and learning is my favorite addiction.

The Beautiful Rebellion

Here's my confession: I'm staging a quiet revolution against mindless scrolling and internet drama. I've traded online gaming for adult coloring books, digital noise for reborn doll collecting and photography. These tangible, screen-free activities have become my meditation, my return to the physical world where hands create and hearts heal.

The Art Behind the Art

For over 14 years, I've been painting with pixels, creating digital art that spans from traditional Photoshop wizardry to cutting-edge AI collaboration. I'm a mixed-media digital alchemist, blending everything into something that didn't exist before I dreamed it into being.

I confess to being wildly in love with culinary delicacies (and occasionally inspired to create my own), good books that change the shape of your soul, and art in every form that dares to exist. I'm a confessional poet at heart, the kind who spills secrets in stanzas and finds god in the details.

The moon and I have an understanding—his fairy lights and the star-blanket universe rolls across the horizon each night remind me that magic is always available to those who remember how to look up.

The Plot Resolution

This little corner of the web exists because after contemplating digital detox, I realized I needed one sacred space where friends, family, and kindred creative spirits can witness the work of my hands and heart. This isn't about perfection—it's about play, about the serious business of not taking ourselves too seriously while we create things that matter.

If you've wandered into my creative universe, welcome, beautiful soul. Let's be friends in that way artists are friends—connected by the understanding that making things is how we make sense of everything, that art is just another word for paying attention, that every creation is a small act of rebellion against a world that sometimes forgets how to wonder.

Thank you for visiting my wild, wonderful corner of creation. I hope you find something here that makes your heart remember how to fly.

Here's to the beautiful mess of making things that matter.