I wrote a thing for a local online magazine!

As promised, here's the feature I wrote for Smile Politely! At the moment, it's landed front-and-center on the main page, which is unexpected. I can definitely live with that!



It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We’re now well into Halloween season, or, to the darkly inclined like myself, regular-home-décor shopping season. As a fairly recent Chambana transplant by way of Indianapolis, I was curious to find what morbid delights await in C-U. See More

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