Personal

A look into my mind through the years. A collection of some of my favorite personal posts.
To revisit my monthly blog recap and videos, visit #vlog.

2024

2/20 I’m Cruisin’
1/1 My End of Year Reflection and 2024 Resolution 🥂

2023

12/31 Texas Trip: Country Saloons, a Half Marathon and Cowgirl in LA 🐴
10/12 Reflections
8/30-9/5 A Week in NYC and My First US Open 🎾
8/24-26 Quirky in Albuquerque: A Solo Trip to the Desert with Incubus 🏜️
8/12-13 A Day Trip to Joshua Tree and the Perseid Meteor Shower 🌵
6/19 To Mom and the Dad I Never Knew
6/10 Yosemite and my First Half Marathon ⛰️🏃‍♀️
3/29 Thirty (Death to my 20s) 🎂
2/25 Keep What You Love Sacred
2/14 The Truth is I Never Thought I’d Be In a Relationship

2022

12/30 A Winter 2022 Vlog
12/30 A Fall 2022 Vlog
12/29 A Summertime (Sadness) Slow-up
11/23 To the Season of Rest
11/1 What matters to me right now?

8/26 I’m Not Okay, and How I’m learning to be Okay with that
8/25 A Series In… #IAmNoExpert: How I cope with social media
8/4 In Love, I Can Bloom
8/4 Starting Over is Never Easy
6/24 Five Days in the Pacific Northwest 🌲
6/14 “You’re Good For Me” 💞
5/6 Spring Healing
4/7 Spring Awakening🕴🏼
3/21 Twentynine 🎂
3/11 Women’s Day Playlist 2022
1/3 ‘How Music Can Make You Better’ Book Review: A fascinating look into how Music and the Mind intersect

2021

12/27 I Took Magic Mushrooms for the First Time & This is How it Went 🍄
12/16 Vlog with a Jog
12/6 Falling Leaves, Seasons Change
11/24 Hanging Up the Apron ☕️
11/2 Burnout 🔥
10/25 My First Trip to NYC Was a Dream 🌃
10/24 In a Summer Daze 🌻
10/5 Rue the Band Plays a Gig at SDFC’s Magic Hour🎵🎸
9/24 A Mess in the Head
8/28 On Finding Joy and that Inner Child 🎸🎞️📸
4/22 “Oh, What A World” (Earth Day Vlog) 🌎
4/2 Twenty-eight and My ‘Golden Hour’ 🥳
1/21 To follow your curiosity
1/13 New Year, Same 2021 Energy

2020

10/31/2020 Introducing Rue the Band and the “Funnel of Love” 🎵
7/27/2020 Home, Again
3/9/2020 The End of a Decade and Twentyseven ⛩️🎂

2019

10/24/2019 My Life as a Roadie with Meg & Dia on the ‘Happysad’ Tour 🎵
10/9/2019 Solo Travelers Wanted
8/26/2019 Ten Years and Half a Million Views Later 🎸🌟
7/2019 Midsummer Wanderers
6/2019 Two Years Later and Summer Beginnings
5/2019 Something About The Fire, and Something About Us
4/2019 Shedding and Movement
3/2019 Twentysix and Beginning Again
2/2019 I’m Stuck, Babe
1/2019 Back To The Velvet Underground

2018

12/2018 Coming Up Roses
11/2018 In My Feels
10/2018 Through Thick And Thin (💔)
9/2018 The Last Hurrah (A Concert Vlog)
9/2018 Breaking Down to Break Through (🌟)
8/2018 You Get What You Give
8/2018 Summer Daze (A Summer Vlog)
8/2018 Back To You and Hometown Takeaways
7/2018 Young, Reckless and Loving It
6/2018 In A New Light
5/2018 Wandering
4/2018 You Give Me That Wicked Love
3/2018 Rediscovered
3/9/2018 Twentyfive (A Birthday Vlog)
2/2018 Forever On The Road
1/2018 Beginnings

2017

1/2 One Sky, Six Months
12/30 Coming to Peace with 2017
12/7 Looking For You, Five Months In
11/6 Quarter Month Crisis
10/4 Third Month’s The Charm
9/10 I Adjusted Month Two
8/27 “Surrender” (Original Song by Rachel Ann Cauilan)
8/7 I Survived One Month
7/2 One Week Out
♥ 5/15 Unraveling, Letting Go and Tahoe Fasho
♥ 4/24 Road to 24: Confessions from the Head and the Heart
2/18 “In The Morning” (Original Song Demo)
♥ 2/14 Love Says, Timing Is Everything
♥ 1/9 Ringing in 2017 with a Need For Change

2016

♥ 12/29 On Love and Opening Up
♥ 12/29 My 10-Day Getaway
12/5 I Know This Much Is “True” (Spandau Ballet Cover)
11/22 Vlog with a Jog, One Year Later
♥ 11/12 On Love and Trust
10/27 When I “Drive” Myself, My Light Is Found (Incubus Cover)
♥ 10/17 2015-16 Guitar on Instagram Compilation: A New Chapter
♥ 9/7 Signs from the Universe
♥ 7/8 Hanging Up the Apron
6/12 That Moment You Look At Someone Like They Are The World
5/11 Confessions of a Music Lover
3/15 Vlog on Being Creative
3/8 The Power of Women and “Shine Theory”
2/17 Open Valentine
1/5 A Holidaze
1/4 Just Stop: Love At First Sight?

2015

12/6 What I’ve Learned at a Coffee Shop
♥ 11/10 Cassadee Pope, Bearded Man, VIP Passes and One “Girl With A Guitar”
11/6 You Give Me That “Wicked Love” (Kate Earl Cover)
11/3 Why I Feel So Strongly About Music
♥ 10/27 Why My Postgrad Blues Were Good For Me
10/8 “To Be Alone” and Out of My Element (Hozier Cover)
♥ 10/1 5 Things I Have Learned About Postgrad
♥ 9/24 I’m Dating
♥ 9/4 Why Postgrad Has Taught Me To “Return To Love”
8/24 My Next (Postgrad) Move & “The Moon Song”
♥ 8/2 Finding My Way Back Home
7/27 New Life Update, Vlogging & “The Most Beautiful Boy In The Room”
7/14 My “Human Nature”
7/2 This Is Going To Sound So Cliche
6/26 What is the one song that has saved your soul?
♥ 6/26 I Graduated
♥ 6/12 Lost Stars
♥ 5/27 Waking Up in Vegas
5/4 Fireside with Jess Bowen and Meg Frampton in “Speak Up Tour”
♥ 4/21 The Significance of PACN and Culture Nights
♥ 4/19 One Girl, Fours Years of PACN
4/10 15 Day Video Challenge: Day 1
♥ 3/29 Why I decided to leave my small town
3/27 Rachel Plays “The Old Guitar” in the Summer of 2013
3/18
Boycrazy Radio Call w/ Alexi Wasser, Shannyn Sossamon & Rachel Ann Cauilan
3/9 Twentytwo
♥ 3/6 Spout Art Interview: Rachel Ann Cauilan
3/3 No Shame. Music Connects People.
3/1 The MaD “Meg & Dia” Boardie Reunion I did not expect to be this much fun
♥ 1/12 I Am Going Rogue

2014

♥ 12/18 Blessings
♥ 12/11 A “Casa de Awesome” Holiday (Hollywood) Party
11/19 Totally Crushing
10/20 I Am Who I Always Have Been
♥ 10/03 Guinness and Growth (and How I’ve Grown Into Myself)
♥ 9/16 I Feel Like I Saved Someone’s Life
8/18 To Live A Happy Life, Date Yourself First
7/16 My Un/healthy Obsession with Olivia Wilde (and Celebrity Role Models)
6/25 The Girl Next Door
6/9 A happy-go-lucky girl
* 5/19 Response to Meg on Accepting Accomplishments and Your Own Story (of Meg & Dia, Chandler the Robot)
♥ 4/22 PACN XXXV Remembered
♥ 4/6 When You Put Yourself Out There, What is to Come of Yourself: Art, Dance, Music, Culture
3/16 Why I Write: Blogs and the Path of Meaning
3/13 Because 21 is a Little Strange (And so is Drinking for the First Time)
2/18 A Weekend of Positivity and Love
2/10 3 things you can do this Valentine’s Day
1/21 Why I am no good in liking, or perhaps the danger of my friendship
♥ 1/16 Growing Up: As I once dreamed of music, I am now learning to love myself

2013

♥ 11/28 11 things I’ve learned about Love, Relationships and Myself
11/12 Searching for a Feeling (Fall Quarter 2013 Festivities)
10/13 I am a Pool of Attraction for my own Good
10/6 On Friends, Boys, and Boys who grow to have Feelings for Me
9/26 Response to Chandler the Robot: Why I Started (Guitar) And Why I Must Not Stop
8/28 I’m still figuring my way out through this little life of mine (On music and college)
8/28 Remember ’11’ and Growing up without a Father with Cassadee Pope
8/24 Remembering the Moment I said ‘Music is for Me’, with Mandy Moore
♥ 8/5“Am I the only one…? On Concert-going and Music
7/26 The Lonely Life… and Becoming a Rhythm Guitarist
♥ 7/22 To the One with Dreams, Love
7/13 I Feel Like a Different Person Every Day
5/27 Are You Still Being Creative? with Dante Basco
* 5/12 A UNIQUE LA Experience, from the Eyes of the Frampton Music-Devotee
5/4 On the topic of guys and object of affections
3/23 Why I do the things I do, and what stems that Passion
3/5 Heart less
2/7 What is it that your heart beats to?
2/1 I Want to Witness a Miracle
1/6 To hope for something
1/4 Refocusing on a Change of Energy

2012

♥ 12/1 What my Culture Has Taught Me: A Memoir to my Time with ‘Kariktan’ and Growing-up
11/30 A Friend in Any & Every One
11/6 ‘Stay positive and be humble.’
10/23 Because Dia Frampton of Meg & Dia is the Sweetest
* 10/19 Dia Frampton, “The Voice” Fan Promo Audition/Interview
9/21 Journal: On love and loneliness, with Edith Piaf (+ video)
9/7 Why I love the entertainment industry
♥ 7/7 An Ode to Ambition (and Having Conversations with Yourself)

2011

7/5 What Will You Do, ‘Only For Love’? with Meg & Dia Frampton (+ song)
5/25 So, this is the end…
♥ 4/29 Saying Goodbye is Bittersweet
♥ 4/17 Kairos XLIII: Enjoy the Ride (+ video)

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“Dream Girl
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15 Day Tumblr Video Challenge
APRIL – JUNE 2012

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“An Ode to Ambition”
JULY 7 2012

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“With the Child in Me (Adolescence into Young-Adulthood)”
OCT 21 2013

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“When You Put Yourself Out There, What is to Come of Yourself: Art, Dance, Music, Culture”
APR 6 2014

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