Today’s show is going to be a very vulnerable one for me, but I am doing it purely for myself in my process of healing with the hopes that it may help other people who are struggling in similar ways.

Never have I felt more like a woman than now.

I essentially wrote A Man of Action as a means of updating my “fictionalized scrapbook” and expressing my frustration with the law.

I essentially wrote A Man of Silence as a way to describe what daily gratitude looks like in slow living, while also coming (somewhat) to terms with my own divorce.

I essentially wrote The Dormant Age as a way to praise and commemorate my lifelong hobby as well as a critique on modern ballet and its destructive ways.

I essentially wrote The Paper Pusher as a way to further connect with my mother’s memory and myself as a young adult.

2026 1 January: Merged two businesses into one, all under Kaitlyn Bankson.

***To be Continued***

The books that are the most sacred to me are as follows: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Of course, there are many other pieces of work that I love, but these speak to my soul.

However, I find that the only way to enhance one’s view of life is to romanticize it. Thanks to Ayn Rand, I now have a philosophical framework by which to live—Objectivism.

Books became my way of searching for the “why” to life.