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What Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Meant to Me

spicy jen

February 10, 2026

This Was Not Entertainment. It Was a Reckoning. When Bad Bunny stepped onto the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage, this was not just a performance. This is what the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show meant to me as an Indigenous woman living abroad. It felt like a pulse.A call back to memory.A declaration that […]

The Six Pillars of Returning

six pillars

February 5, 2026

The Foundation of the Rooted Living When I began writing the Rooted Guide, I was not trying to design a framework. I was trying to survive my own disconnection with honesty. I was asking questions that do not come from curiosity alone, but from lived tension. Am I walking in a good way?What happens when […]

Nature Does Not Hurry. Neither Did Rooted.

Rooted living

January 30, 2026

A Guide to Return to What Matters I thought finishing the Rooted Guide by December 2025 would be a matter of discipline. Why? This has been living in my head for years, and if I didn’t get it out now, it would simply die as another great idea. And I couldn’t have that at all. […]

Never Quite Enough: Creating My Own Way in a Country That Doesn’t See Me

jen jul never enough

November 3, 2025

There’s a line I read recently that hit close to home: “Some days it feels as if I’m not Native enough for my own people because I use the tools we have been given, and never Western enough for the system that was built to destroy us.” ~Maija Katak Lukin That sentence held me still […]

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