Since I’m a chronically online member of Gen Z, I spend a lot of time on TikTok. So I thought I would try to influence you to follow my favorite influencers.

I’ve been meaning to watch Mad Men for years. It’s one of my dad’s favorite shows, though I don’t usually follow his TV recommendations since they tend to involve a lot more sci-fi or Vikings than I’m interested in. But once I started studying public relations, the idea of a show about the advertising industry suddenly felt a lot more relevant. When it finally became available to stream again in December 2025, I decided it was time to see what all the hype was about.

Not an Olympics post—just an aggressively opinionated honeymoon recap comparing Norway vs. Finland on cost, food, people, and landscape (spoiler: the answer might be “both”).

I didn’t set out to start a “conspiracy” podcast. I’ve just always loved anything involving time travel, glitches in the matrix, déjà vu — anything that makes you question whether reality is as stable as we assume. I couldn’t find a podcast that focused only on that niche. So I made one.

After nearly 30 years in the Lansing area, my family is heading back to het moederland: Holland, Michigan. We’re ready for wooden shoes and windmills, tulips and traditions—and yes, three meals a day at Russ’. I’ll keep working remotely, just with more lake-effect optimism. What we’re not excited about is the move itself.

But I don’t want to wear a ribbon.

Finally! It only took about 40 years, but my middle school, smart-ass, TV-obsessed self was right. Reading books can be hazardous to your health!

Park your walkers, friends, and I will lay out my case.

By the time you read this blog, I will be happily beyond the wedding planning process and enjoying my honeymoon. But since Matt is nice (and allowing us to basically take the entire month of December off) I am writing this blog a month in advance, meaning I am in the very scary abyss that is the final three weeks of planning a wedding. 

The holiday season is officially upon us, which means decorations are going up, gift exchanges are underway, and the calendar is suddenly filled with cookie swaps, family gatherings, and festive outings. It’s a joyful time—until an uninvited guest shows up: sickness.

As a PR student, I’ve spent a lot of time learning about strategy, messaging, and audience behavior in the classroom, but I never expected MSU basketball to reinforce those lessons. The Izzone has a reputation as one of the best student sections in college basketball, and as a section leader in those first rows of the lower bowl, you understand why. It’s the tradition, the chaos, the pride, and the way thousands of students can create a real home-court advantage that even opposing coaches and TV announcers acknowledge. 

We’ve managed to ruin just about everything in American life—Halloween included. But somehow, against all odds, Thanksgiving has stayed exactly what it’s always been: simple, comforting, and impossible to commercialize. Turns out, the one holiday we haven’t messed up might just be the best one we have.

As parents, we often say that we suffer, work, and persevere in order to give our kids a better life than we had growing up—or something like that.

Still, I feel my boys are missing out on some of the essential character building and spine stiffening that comes with having their names publicly butchered on the regular in front of their peers—or live television audiences.

Worrying sucks. Worrying about tomorrow sucks even more.

Some digital tactics keep crawling out of the graveyard of bad memes and worse marketing. So grab a shovel — and let’s give these a proper burial.

It’s not National Boss’s Day, and I’m not trying to get a raise. It is, however, Matt’s birthday, and I figured, this is as good a time as any to recognize him.

I think conference season is finally behind us. It happens every September and October, but this conference season left me wondering if maybe we could just… not? 

If you know me at all then you probably know that I like to read (it’s basically my only hobby). I am definitely a mood reader, and what I want to read depends on the season. Beachy rom-coms in the summer, spooky thrillers in the fall… you get the idea. So today I’m sharing my fall TBR.