Welcome

For the people who know something needs to change...and could use a place to start.

Educator tools. Guided journals. Art. Creative experiences.

Meet Adelaide

I'm a special education teacher, mentor, artist, journal-maker, and chronic creator of things I think should exist. For more than a decade, I've worked with students and educators...and I've noticed I keep coming back to the same question:

Where are you stuck, and what might make the next step feel possible?

Sometimes the answer is a practical tool for a student who doesn't know where to start. Sometimes it's a better question for a teacher who feels completely overwhelmed. Sometimes it's a guided journal, a paintbrush, or a table full of art supplies by the ocean.

My own path has been anything but straight. I grew up in Indiana, spent years traveling the country as a teacher and living in a campervan, studied global perspectives in education at Boston College, and eventually found my way to Los Angeles. Somewhere along the way, I stopped trying so hard to pick one lane and started paying attention to the pattern.

Everything I create is meant to offer a place to start...to help people feel a little more capable, connected, and aligned with what they actually need.

I'm glad you're here.

Welcome. Let's get aligned.

Where do you need a place to start?

I want to get out of the house and do something that feels good

Beachside painting, journaling, and creative workshops.

I want to create something

Original artwork inspired by mindfulness, nature, and self-expression.

I want to reconnect with myself

Guided journals

I support students and need practical tools

Resources, curriculum, and tools for inclusive classrooms.

Things I've Been Thinking About

You Probably Already Know What You Should Do. Maybe You Just Need a Place to Start.

We give people some incredibly useless advice. Get organized. Speak up for yourself. Take better care of yourself. Set boundaries. Participate more. Be confident. Ask for help. Find a hobby. Okay. How? I have spent most of my career in education, which means I have spent a lot of time around goals, feedback, evaluations, interventions, and people telling other people how they could improve. One of my least favorite experiences was learning that, on most teacher evaluation sys

I Kept Trying to Find My Niche. I Should Have Been Looking for My Pattern.

I have purchased an embarrassing number of domain names. This feels important to disclose before I give anyone advice about finding their purpose. I have started blogs. Built websites. Created teaching projects. Abandoned teaching projects. Researched ideas extensively, made elaborate plans, created three organizational systems for the plan, and then somehow made the entire thing so complicated that I no longer wanted to do it. I know this about myself. I have a tendency to m

I've Been Teaching for a Decade. I Don't Know What “Unmotivated” Means Anymore.

There are few words in education I trust less than “unmotivated.” Not because unmotivated people don't exist. I have personally avoided folding a basket of laundry for four business days. But after a decade of teaching, I think we use the word much too quickly when we don't understand what is happening yet. I've taught the student with 42 missing assignments. The student who needs to go to the bathroom every time reading starts. The student with three completed assignments cr

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Mon, Sep 07
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Sun, Oct 04
1833 Ocean Front Walk
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Let Go Journal Circle
Sun, Nov 01
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Self-Compassion Journal Circle
Sun, Dec 06
1833 Ocean Front Walk
End the year with an evening of reflection, kindness, and a reminder that you deserve the same compassion you so freely give everyone else.
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