New York Times bestselling romance author and designer. Based in New York.
I love stumbling upon creative little corners of the internet, unbothered by algorithms, trends, and the pressure to look polished rather than interesting.
let's make the internet weird again.
I started noticing silver hairs in my 20s. By 40 I was dying it every 2-3 weeks. At 41 I decided to let it be.
a hair story
Currently
Aquarius Season
We're in the middle of a deep freeze in NYC right now, and ... I kind of love it. Not so much the huge piles of dirty gray snow, but I sleep better when it's cold, and the city feels calm.
Our 19 year old Pomeranian is off on her next great adventure as of last week. I'm both heartbroken and peaceful. All the beautiful flowers we've received are making me so grateful for kindness.
Reading: 1177BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. I know next to nothing about antiquity, so this is hurting my brain in the best way. It's both haunting and beautiful to know that the crap we're going through today is so not unique to our time.
Working on: I just switched this site back to Showit. I keep trying to return to my old Squarespace loyalties because of the integrated shop, but they seem determined to drive loyal customers away with bugs, removing their best fonts, and weird AI features nobody asked for. Also gearing up to re-launch Vesper Avenue. My astrology and spirituality itch has not abated.
I've rotated among the same 3 Old Navy turtlenecks every day since November and regret nothing. I'm only 5'7 but ordered a Tall to pair with leggings.
updated; feb 3 2026
I've been thinking a lot about the idea of curation as a form of creation. The creator economy has been a thing for awhile now, and i don't think it's going anywhere soon despite Instagram's seeming desire to make it as difficult as possible to share anything other than a tacky Reel...
But I've been taking note lately of the way that while I've always gone in waves with loving and loathing Instagram (mostly the latter), Pinterest has always made me feel the most creative, even if I'm just creating the perfect Moody board by saving other images.
And I love Cosmos a weird amount; a Pinterest alternative that's just a little prettier, and ad-free. I can happily lose hours collecting images of rain. This used to make me feel like a lame tagalong; adding nothing to the mix, but rather remixing.
Lately I've been wondering if I've been selling myself ... and my fellow curators short. In an era where we're drowning in new content being created every day, maybe what's needed just as much as content is a context and filter.
I've been doing a lot of journaling lately on my life's purpose now that I've moved away from romance writing full-time, and while the jury's still out, the other day I forced myself to answer "dream job" and I wrote: "creating and curating aesthetic content."
How to make money for it? A mystery. Maybe an impossibility. But it's on my mind.
on my mind: curation
I started a digital garden.
Or maybe a digital commonplace book?
Whatever we want to call it, it's collected bits of curiousities that I want to remember and/or share.
a few of my favorite things
Stumbling up on lists of things that other people like is one of my favorite way to connect with strangers.
