When I wrote my spring 2026 music recap, I led with something to the effect of “this was the busiest season of my life”. While summer didn’t beat that, I managed to set myself up for what is looking like an even busier autumn. I’ve since joined two new publications, write promotional material for companies, and run a successful TikTok/Instagram series of songs I recommend for oddly specific situations. Here’s a glimpse of the soundtrack. The playlist cover for my "Spring and

How is it possible that the busiest calendar season I’ve probably ever had has come to an end? This spring, I published 25-ish articles (and wrote many more), took 16 credit hours, and kept up four side hustles. I keep two consistent playlists a year: for spring and summer, and for fall and winter. So, what was my soundtrack this spring? I kicked off my spring and summer playlist with a couple songs from summer 2022, a result of Nashville breaking 70 degrees starting in March

This has been a crazy season. I’ve committed to this blog (and journalism in general) big-time and have so many pieces I’m pushing out. Even with so much going on, one of the types of articles I do that I try not to take for granted is my seasonal roundup of music recommendations by women. Admittedly, this winter was a little dry. Winters tend to be. Artists are wrapping up their projects and starting new ones as the new year begins. They’re not often rolling out an album i

This autumn was one of my strangest ones yet. For the first time, I entered a season without a single person I’d known for more than two months, in a city that was completely new to me. It was a total clean slate, and the soundtrack music was bound to become formative. Here are the women who defined my first autumn as an adult! To pick up right where we left off on my summer music recap, Sabrina Carpenter was hands down the biggest artist on my mind. I won’t