Glow by Lady E

On September 23, 2025, Glow reached one million views. I remember looking at that number and wondering what could possibly come after a million. Less than a year later, I have my answer. 759,511 more visits. Not another beginning. Not an ending either. Still becoming. Glow has reached 1,759,511 all-time views. Our last milestone was 1.5 million . Since then, another 259,511 views have quietly found their way here. That number still feels a little unreal to me. Not because I think of Glow as small anymore, but because I still remember what it feels like to sit down and write one piece at a time. One thought. One photograph. One painting. One ordinary afternoon turned into something worth keeping. And then, somewhere beyond my screen, someone reads it. Then someone else does. And somehow, over time, those tiny moments become 1,759,511 . The painting behind this milestone is called Still Becoming . I painted it long before deciding it would become part of Glow’s milestone s...

August ended with 106,299 views on Glow. Six figures. There is something a little surreal about typing that number, especially when I think about what a view actually represents. Somewhere, someone opened a page. Maybe she came looking for an answer. Maybe a photograph caught her eye. Maybe she was curious about something I bought, wore, tried, made, or thought about. Maybe she read one piece and wandered into another. And somehow, all those small moments added up to 106,299 . What makes August even more special to me is seeing just how far Glow traveled. To everyone reading from the United States, Norway, Seychelles, Brazil, Germany, Singapore, India, Vietnam, France, and Pakistan , thank you. These were Glow’s ten biggest countries for the month, and seeing places thousands of kilometers apart gathered together on one little analytics page never stops feeling remarkable. And to everyone reading from everywhere else, including my quiet readers here in the Philippines, thank yo...

  J anuary 1. The start of a new year. The start of 2026. New year is the time for resolutions. I'm not one to make resolutions, because I know they're hard to keep. But this year, I'm doing something different. These aren't resolutions per se, but more of a lifestyle change.  I was journaling last night, 15 minutes before midnight. And I've had several realizations. The first of them was that I wanted to be more selfish this year. Our pastor said in one of his sermons, to think of the other person more. I did some self-reflection and found that my problem is I've been thinking of the other person far more, for far too long than myself. I have given and given so much of myself, my time, energy, effort, money to other people all my life that by the end of the year, I'm left with nothing.  That's why I decided that for 2026, I'll be a little more selfish.  Here are 5 things I'm doing for myself this year to fill my cup: 1. Give in to impulse buys f...