Dear reader,
When I started Days Inspired, I was enamored by the idea of anonymous blogging.
I could make things, put them on the internet, and watch what happened without putting too much of myself on the internet. No personal brand. No carefully curated photos of me laughing alone with a coffee. Just ideas, quietly released into the wild.
And, somewhat unbelievably, it worked.
Over the years, Days Inspired grew from a creative experiment into a real business. At its peak, it earned thousands of dollars a month in ad revenue. It reached more people than I ever expected it to: reaching over one million users in a year, and 10 million Pinterest impressions each month. It taught me how to write for the internet, how to make things people actually wanted to find, and how one person with a laptop can build something surprisingly substantial.
I’m incredibly proud of that.
But somewhere along the way, I realized I had built a successful creative project that didn’t leave much room for the person creating it.
Days Inspired was designed to be useful, searchable, and anonymous. Those qualities helped it grow. They also made it difficult to share the things I increasingly wanted to share: what I was making, what I was learning, what I was struggling with, and what I actually thought about any of it.
Something was missing: me!
Above creating a successful blog, my goal has always been to create things I’m proud of. Things that represent who I am, not only what performs well in a search result. It just took me a while, and one objectively successful anonymous blog, to figure out what that meant.
So, I’m starting something new.
From Saturn, With Love, on Substack, is my new home for writing about creativity and making things.
It’s where I’ll be sharing practical ways to fit creativity into a busy life, personal creative challenges and workbooks, carefully curated inspiration, and honest reflections from my own creative practice.
Not creativity as another thing to optimize, monetize, or become exceptionally good at. Creativity as something worth making room for in the middle of work, parenthood, unfinished chores, low-energy days, and all the other circumstances that make waiting for the perfect conditions a fairly reliable way to never begin.
This move is exciting. It is also scary.
I’ve always had a bit of an instinct to disappear. To make myself smaller, stay behind the scenes, and avoid taking up too much space. I’m sure this is something I could unpack in therapy, but instead I built an entire anonymous website around it.
And there is something wonderfully safe about being anonymous. You can publish something and, if it’s terrible, quietly close the laptop as though you had nothing to do with it.
Putting my name and face beside my work feels different. More vulnerable. More personal. More like standing beside something I made instead of leaving it on the internet and running away.
But I’m starting to understand that creating things that truly represent me also requires allowing myself to be seen.
That is still scary. But it also feels like the next right thing.
Days Inspired showed me that I could build something successful. Now I want to build something that feels like mine.
If you’ve ever wanted to make more things, return to a neglected creative practice, or find a way to keep creativity alive in an already-full life, I would love to have you there.
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Thank you for reading Days Inspired, finding my work through some extremely specific Google search, saving it on Pinterest, or simply being somewhere on the other side of the screen.
I’m finally ready to meet you there as myself.
From Saturn, With Love.