A Little About Me

Okay, okay, okay, welcome to Semi Finished — my tiny pastel colored bubble where the messy middle gets a VIP pass.

I'm Sarah! I am a midlife, single mom of three amazing children. In a nutshell I constantly have what feels like a million tabs open at once. I paint night skies while a podcast fizzles in the background and one of my kids is always asking for a ride somewhere (which I am always there for). My life is not a museum. It’s a living room full of always lit fairy lights around my ceiling, a sketchbook or journel sitting on any given surface and a playlist that makes you feel twice as much and also somehow okay.

What is the "messy middle"? I'm glad you asked!

The messy middle is the exact space between “i’m not okay” and “i’m fixed.” It’s the half-finished sketches, the text drafts that are left unsent, the laundry pile, the small brave choices and the nights I take a green gummy and paint and dance in my kitchen until 4am because feelings don’t keep studio hours. It’s tenderness with boundaries...that are still soft but not desperate... and the part of life where I'm rebuilding with patience instead of pretending I'm whole.

It’s a place that holds contradiction like joy and grief, hope and “not yet,” interesting rituals and intentional standards. It’s where stories have doors and balcony seats, where growth is happening in increments and where being “semi finished” is celebrated and not ashamed.

Semi Finished is for people who live in the in‑between spots of life. The text drafts that might go unsent, the late nights, the “almost theres". Here I keep the sticky notes with unfinished sentences and the parts that smell like comforting sleepytime tea and salt air at the same time. I'm not here to be polished. I'm here to be honest, messy and tender with standards. Always :)

What you’ll find here:

• Short essays that turn vents into tiny poems.

• Art made at 1am because sometimes feelings and dreams need a place to live.

• Playlists that read like emotional weather reports.

• A "Friends’ Page" (coming soon!) where I shove my favorite humans into the spotlight because I like to curate amazing people.

• Thoughts and musings on life and how I navigate those seas whether they be rough or calm.

I’m careful now. I won’t give my heart away for a highlight reel. If you show up there, bring reciprocity and consistency. This space is reserved for the ready, not for hoping.

I started this because life hands me notebooks half full and I prefer stories with doors and balcony seats. My kids are my loud and brilliant soundtrack...Jack’s baritone/voice/sense of humor, Lizzie’s brilliance/sunshine personality/many talents and Grace confidentely and intentionally carving her own way in life making my heart swell with pride each time I talk to her...and everything I write lives around them, not on top of them.

This blog is practice. It’s where I try being kinder to myself and untangling old habits like “i’ll take anything that wants me.” It’s where I celebrate small wins: a bath that lasts 20 whole minutes, hair that survived another dye job, a date that didn’t feel like a test.

Come as you are! Bring your half‑finished projects and your secondhand hope. Stay for the playlists and the posts. Stay long enough to argue that Wes Anderson's movies are peak comfort cinema (they are).

Welcome to the messy middle!

We are gloriously Semi-Finished, and that’s the point!