Blog
Blurring the lines between the academic, the personal, the professional, and the creative...
2025 Journal Review
Creativity is a liberation impulse, an activity that transforms materials and energy. It stems from the impulse to use the capacities of your mind, body, soul, and other inner resources collaboratively, to create. The creative process demands the recon...
Read more
Conference Junk Journal #5
From October 6th to 12th, I travelled to Ciudad de México to participate in the 25th Annual International Congress hosted by the Curriculum & Pedagogy Group and CORYMI (Red para la Promoción de la Salud, Educación y Bienestar Psicosocial en Comunidades...
Read more
Textured Journaling: A Tactile Archive from Regensburg
Inspired by the Germany-based Stadtstempel Projekt (@stadtstempel_projekt), I found myself in Germany (what a coincidence!) experimenting for the first time with an intuitive stamping technique I’ve come to call textured journaling. Equipped with a c...
Read more
Conference Junk Journal #4
Conference Junk Journal #4 –Paths Toward Narrative Sovereignty in Indigenous Cinema: Fields of Tension, Movements, Balances — International Conference Organized by Dr. Dagmar Schmelzer and Dr. Beatrice Schuchardt at the University of Regensburg from June 25th to 27th, 2025.
Journal Archive – Volume VI
As the month of May comes to an end, so does my latest journal—the one that has been with me from January 2025 until now. Before starting a new one, I’ve been trying to make it a habit to pause and revisit the pages I’ve filled. For my previous journal...
Read more
Conference Junk Journaling #3
As spring bursts in all its wild, bright, and unpredictable energy, I’m thrilled to share my latest junk journal creation—a tactile archive of the season’s rhythms and my own unfolding process. This is the third junk journal I’ve made this year, each r...
Read more
Conference Junk Journaling #2
Junk journaling can be described as a form of collage-making that uses found, scrap, and “junk” materials—items that are often discarded or forgotten. I began junk journaling during my trips to conferences as a way of processing and documenting my exp...
Read more
Journal Archive – Volume V
This collage is a visual representation of the last six months of my life, as documented in my bullet and junk journal practice. Made with cut-out images, Polaroids, words from my journal, liquid acrylics, and embroidery, I created this collage while reflecting on key lessons and inspirations I jotted down in my journal from June 2024 to December 2024. Since 2021, journaling has grown into a daily ritual that allows me to connect to my intuition and creativity, becoming an organic archive of my life. Weaving together my not-so-separate personal, academic, and professional endeavors, my journal reflects back to me my ever-changing passions, tensions, and spaces for growth. Creating this collage to commemorate the end of my latest journal cycle was an empowering process. It made space for me to slow down, appreciate the growth of my inner and exterior gardens, collect and preserve that which inspires me most, and do some necessary pruning to make space for the next cycles and seasons to come.
A few of my meaningful things
juxtaposed over some pictures I took while wondering off to a botanical garden during my trip to Phoenix Arizona for the Literacy Research Association (LRA) conference.