About

The Tuesday Series was born from conversations with good friends and inner dialogues that occur(ed) at my highest and at my lowest. Sometimes both. Some of these essays detail situations that may feel trivial but are significant at their core; a day-in-the-life of hot-mess mothering, for example. Others delve into topics I feel deserve their soapbox moment, narratives that should be aired and shared so that, one day, they can change.

Personal essays are my jam. I love reading people like Joan Didion, Melissa Febos and Chuck Klosterman. They share the kind of thoughts and experiences I crave in conversations: the real shit. The shame and despicableness of what makes us human. The joy we find in embracing our awkwardness. The power in the scope of our sexuality. The peace in creative chaos. Reading others leaves me with a sense of satisfaction and connectedness that often lack in daily interactions. I hope to leave others with a similar feeling with my words. My rage. My joy. My shame. My understanding of the world and the beauty in it.

The peanut butter to my jam, are interviews. I can easily spend an entire night hopscotching from one interview to another in books, on YouTube or listening to Podcasts. I am in awe of people who know how to get to the core of someone's essence by simply listening, feeling them out and asking the right questions. Even more so of the people who are willing to sit, reflect and then dig deep, bespeckling readers and listeners with the dirt that molded them. Interviewing people has formed a big part of my writing career going on almost two decades. There's nothing more gratifying than coming out of interviewing a perfect stranger, with the privilege of having gotten to know (parts of) them, you never would have known otherwise. They make for oddly instant and intimate connections. Which is why, adding interviews with female identifying and non-binary folk to The Tuesday Series repertoire, only felt natural.

The sandwich that helps me hold it all together, is Aurora. When I decided to "get serious" about this series, I knew I wanted original artwork to compliment my writing. And I knew she could make that happen. She's gotta that DIY punk soul, she's all snowy day romance at heart and she's got that outspoken, pure funkiness that seeps from her person and into her art. The perfect middle between softness and Edge which I think, ultimately, this series is all about.