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You’ll find me writing under a few different names—Avery Carter, CS White, and Faith Skinner—because my passions span from business and creativity to faith, family, and everything in between.
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Books I Love Right Now:
A story of reinvention, redemption, and the dangerous dance between who we were and who we're becoming.
Sequel coming soon!
CS White
CS White
Avery Carter
Unlock The Science That Feels Like Magic, Elevate Self-Worth, Live Authentically and Attract Abundance
Avery Carter
A Guide to Romantic Hideaways, Quirky Tales, and Chic Escapes In and Around Paris
A playful guide to deepening your romantic connection
What to Actually Buy in Paris (When Your Friend Asks and You Have Too Many Opinions)
I wrote this list for her. Now I’m toggling between Substack, Airbnb, and flight deals because I’ve already decided to move my next trip up.
My friend Shannon is going to Paris.
She came to me for shopping advice, and I need you to understand something: I love when people do this. I have lived in Paris. I have studied in Paris. I have been back more times than I can count, and I am still, every single time, a complete tourist about it. I still get a little thrill when I see the Eiffel Tower from a new angle. I still wander into bakeries I’ve been to a dozen times and act like I’m discovering them. I still take too many photos of rooftops. That never goes away for me, and I don’t want it to.
It's Never Just Stuff: The Emotional Stages of Decluttering
It starts with a closet, and somehow becomes a full-on life review.
There’s a moment in almost every downsizing project I’ve ever worked on where the client stops, looks at me, and says some version of the same thing:
“I don’t know why this is so hard. It’s just stuff.”
It’s never just stuff.
This is exciting! I have so many questions that need answers. How and why did you fall down this rabbit hole?
I Came to Write. I Stayed to Eavesdrop.
On eavesdropping and seeing yourself in a stranger
I was at the coffee shop because I had evacuated my own house. This is a thing I have to do sometimes, because if I don’t, I will quietly become a shut-in. Writers Becoming Shut-Ins. And there’s next week’s Substack. I had a design detail I couldn’t crack and a blank page I was avoiding, and the cure for both, I’d decided, was ambient noise and someone else making my coffee.
And then she sat down behind me.
I am definitely bookmarking this post for future reference when I take that dream trip. Also, I want to hang a sign outside my bedroom that says, “Le Boudoir Du Regard.” Ooh la la!
The Cosmo Quiz Never Dies
Still circling B after all these years
I was fourteen years old, sitting cross-legged on my best friend’s bedroom floor, flipping through a Cosmo magazine we definitely weren’t supposed to have. We’d already skipped past the articles we didn’t understand and landed on the good stuff: a quiz called something like “Is He Really Into You?” or “What’s Your Ideal First Date?”
We took it so seriously. Like, pencil in hand, reading each question out loud, debating whether “sometimes” was closer to A or C. The results told us things about ourselves we desperately wanted to know. Or at least, things we wanted someone else to confirm.
Big wake up call for me. Colossal..
On the other hand, because I always have to “yeah, but” only everything, I wonder, is there any middle ground? We, and by “we” I mean women, are so terribly hard on ourselves. What if the conversation we have with ourselves isn’t “What if you were THE best,” but “What if you were Your best?” I don’t know, maybe it’s a distinction without a difference.
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I Came to Write. I Stayed to Eavesdrop.
On eavesdropping and seeing yourself in a stranger