Pageants

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A crowning day - Miss Shoreline and West Michigan Recap!

One of my original goals in starting this blog was to document my own pageant experiences. This has multiple purposes: First, to give me...

Miss America Turned 100, and Yes, People Care

You know when you go back to a place you love and it just gives you butterflies? The scent, the sounds, the sights… Maybe it's just the...

Hustle & Heart will set you apart: Takeaways from Miss Michigan

I’ve been waiting for this last weekend for the last two years—Miss Michigan WEEK. Who else missed the energy and buzz of a full audience...

Making the best of a bad situation, with a little announcement...

For those of you who have read my blogs before, you know that my recent pageant experiences (recent meaning pre-COVID) have been a bit of...

Losing isn't the end of the world.

Trust me. I'm pretty much a professional.

Miss America and Miss USA - What's the difference?

Miss America and Miss USA are the most infamously confused pageant systems - Here's how they're different.

Pageantry and PR: How Pageants Prepared me for Public Relations

This blog was originally written for GrandPR, a student-run public relations firm at Grand Valley State University. When I tell people...

I don't have a crown, but here's what I won.

It's hard for me to believe that I've been competing in the Miss America Organization for six years now. Crowns and sashes were never in...