Welcome to Millennial Houseplant!
Hi, I’m Crystal! I am an artist – consider myself to be a creative person (not just because my imposter syndrome would never tolerate calling myself an artist) as I love to write, paint, graphic design, and craft. I’m a middle-aged mom (according to at least one person on the internet) and if you couldn’t tell already by the title of this site or the overuse of parentheticals, I am a millennial. I made my first website in 1998 and haven’t really stopped since. When I’m not working a customary 40 hours to support my livelihood I am writing and publishing romance and romantasy on Amazon/Kindle Unlimited and using my social media to bring awareness to the social and political causes I care most deeply about. If you like what you see or read here then I thank you for your time!
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Thoughts from the Pick Up Line
It has now officially been a fully week that my son has been in Kindergarten, a week of drop-offs and pick-ups, and during the whole experience I’ve been observing, noticing, and cataloging my thoughts on the dynamics of people in those conditions. Here are some of my thoughts, and please note they are evolving so…
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Adventures in Kindergarten
Well it’s official, my baby has started Kindergarten, and I have officially experienced my first drop-off/pick-up loop. For years I have learned how to successfully avoid school zone areas because of the traffic, and now I am that traffic. For the first day we left the house almost 30 minutes before the start of class…
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Patience is a Virtue (or Am I Getting Played?)
A couple months ago I did something really out of character and reached out to a former colleague of mine to see if there were any job opportunities at a place where I used to work. The chances seemed small, but the response I received back was positive and soon I found myself starting to…
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Three New Covers
In 2025 I set out with the goal of removing any presence of AI from my work (you can read the full story including subsequent updates in my AI Disclosure). Long story short I had used ChatGPT many years ago to rewrite certain blurbs, and I both knowingly and unknowingly licensed AI artwork and used…
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the executive dysfunction is working
Am I burnt out? Is it my ADHD? Is it the autism? Is it perimenopause or just *glances around at ongoing world events that keep getting worse and more expensive* everything? I’ve not written in my journal in so long I’ve started feeling bad about it. I keep so many things inside that I might…
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