Being a creative woman with BIG DREAMS and MEGA VISION comes with its own hardships. There’s nothing more disheartening than coming up with incredible ideas and searching for collaboration, only to be met with delusional men who praise your talent and admire your ambition, just to belittle you when you express real desires to manifest those conversations. It’s a poisonous trait that can stall your momentum. But this post isn’t about them. It’s about recognizing toxic truths a

Why so serious? I ask myself. The pressure builds incrementally as time pushes toward each post date. Suddenly I’m plagued by the reckless banter of my own mind (really just me acting as my own worst enemy) making me feel like the simple act of execution just isn’t enough. Now I need to be the next Ree Drummond or Reni Eddo-Lodge, and anything less simply will not suffice. Or will it? In an age where people are posting and receiving praise for the most outrageously undercooke

Transition and Grief I lost Ruby two weeks ago. Ruby was my dog. But in reality, she was so much more than that. She was my best friend, my family, and truly, a gem. I felt it was important to write about her because, in the midst of this mighty life transition, losing Ruby has marked the end of an era for me. I adopted her when she was just a precious one-year-old puppy. I walked into a van being run by Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in the parking lot of Gelson’s, a groce

Creative Direction, Discomfort and Discovering Alignment In my second term at ArtCenter, I had a class called Concept 1 .The premise was simple: come up with five original ideas every single day. Each week, the number increased by five, so by the end we were generating twenty ideas a day. Honestly, the best homework I’ve ever had. The only rule was: don’t censor yourself, and whatever you came up with had to make sense conceptually. So one day, mostly as a joke, I wrote dow

Welcome to Pirate Royalty, my public diary that comes with an open invitation for us to connect and reflect together. Now, for context, earlier this year I moved to London after spending most of my adult life in Los Angeles. You might be wondering, why would she do that? And the truth is, I was feeling stagnant and unfulfilled, so true to my nature, I left and moved to London, a city I’ve dreamt of moving to since 2018 and finally acted on in 2025; simply because every time

Pirate Royalty exists for those who have stepped off the map; who have wagered security for self-expression and risked belonging for authenticity, all in pursuit of a life rooted in creative integrity. This platform moves beneath aesthetic craftsmanship, turning its focus toward the maker – the artist compelled to give form to the inner world, excavated through instinct rather than logic. At its core, Pirate Royalty is an evolving creative archive for those who remain curious