Featured Essay
The Shoes We Outgrow
On moving on and moving forward, and the strange ache of realizing that growth rarely asks for permission before it changes you.
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Writing that lives in the details most people walk past.
Short stories, poems, food pieces, lifestyle writing, and essays shaped by attention, memory, and whatever lingers longest.
Sydney writes across forms, from personal essays and speeches to journalism, letters, and literary work, always returning to the same instinct: to pay close attention and give language to what lingers.
Archive
A growing collection, organized by form.
Short Stories
Where Daisies LingerA short story about a man whose life revolves around death until love unsettles everything he thought he understood.
Food Pieces
How To Lose A Girl in One Crawfish BoilTulane men keep proving romance is temporary, but a bad restaurant choice is forever.
How To Find Discounted Easter Candy
Trying The Food At The Miami Open
Dairy Queen's Free Cone Day 2026
It's Big Little Baskets Season
How Tell Me Lies Uses Food To End Everything
Meet Ann Michael Maye, The NFL WAG With A Talent For Baking
We Finally Found Gluten-Free Cheez-Its After Searching 6 Stores
Poems
Smaller pieces shaped by image, ache, inheritance, and weather.
Lifestyle
Writing for Hopelessly Yellow and pieces rooted in culture.
About
A writer with an instinct to notice what stays behind.
Sydney is a writer whose work lives in the details most people walk past. A senior at Tulane University and contributor to Spoon University and Hopelessly Yellow, she writes across forms: personal essays, speeches, journalism, letters, but the thread that runs through all of it is the same: an instinct to pay attention and give language to what lingers.
She collects the moments other people forget and turns them into something worth holding onto.
Whether she is writing for a crowd of thousands or an audience of one, her voice is warm, specific, and unmistakably hers.
“She collects the moments other people forget and turns them into something worth holding onto.”
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