Sophia the 13th — because it’s the number they skip.

I’m slightly opinionated and have been told more than once that I “always have something to say”—so I decided to make that useful.

After years of giving unsolicited (but usually accurate) advice to friends, one of them finally told me I should just write it all down. So that’s what I’m doing.

I have a bachelor’s degree in sociology—which, depending on who you ask, is either not that useful or very useful in an “I understand people a little too well now” kind of way. What it did give me, though, was a lot of practice writing, thinking, and breaking things down in a way that actually makes sense.

Funny enough, that wasn’t always the case. I was an ESL student who struggled a lot in school growing up, and writing definitely didn’t come naturally to me. It wasn’t until my junior and senior year of high school that I had an English teacher who was patient enough to really teach me—and something finally clicked. After that, I went from struggling to write a sentence to writing full research papers without wanting to cry (most of the time).

Somewhere along the way, I also became the person people go to when they need advice. Not because I have everything figured out—but because I’m honest, I pay attention, and I’m not afraid to say the thing people are usually thinking but won’t say out loud.

So I write for people who want real talk, not recycled quotes—the kind of writing that doesn’t always sound pretty, but actually hits.

Think less “follow your dreams” and more “okay, but what are you actually doing?”