It’s Pride Month, and lately I’ve been thinking about attraction and compatibility. Not attraction in the simple sense of who catches my eye. Not who I think is handsome. Not who I would swipe right on. Something deeper. Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself looking back at the men I’ve been attracted to […]
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Grief revealed about family is something few people prepare you for, especially when loss exposes emotional patterns that were always there beneath the surface. There is something deeply unsettling about realizing you are grieving while simultaneously being forced to monitor the emotional behavior of everyone around you. Most people assume grief looks the same for
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Pouring from an empty cup is something many people talk about casually, but grief taught me what it actually feels like in real life. There are moments when everything feels like it is happening at once—loss, responsibility, emotional exhaustion, and the quiet realization that the world around you still expects you to function as if
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words vs energy in dating illustration Words vs energy in dating often creates a kind of disappointment that does not feel like heartbreak. It feels like recognition. Not the loss of a relationship, because nothing fully formed—but the realization that what was presented could not be sustained. Something was said with depth, with intention, with
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Martone centered in a dance rehearsal formation with four dancers, representing discipline, flow, and Phoenix Rising alignment. 3 Signs You’re Entering Your Phoenix Rising Alignment There are moments in life where everything just lines up. Not because life is perfect, and not because everything is solved, but because, for a brief stretch of time, nothing
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From a quiet gaze in the woods to a simple act of kindness, these moments reminded me that even in loss, I am still here—and somehow, still seen. Bloomfield Hills, MI You don’t always realize when you’re being seen. Sometimes it’s not by people at all. Sometimes it’s a deer staring directly at you from
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Best Seller Book, African Poetry The Weight of Midnight | Pulitzer Entry by Martone April 1, 2026. National Poetry Month begins—not as a celebration of comfort, but as a reminder of what poetry is meant to do when it is working at its highest level: Tell the truth. Not the version people rehearse.Not the version
7 Truths About Deep & Raw: The Erotica of Martone That People Won’t Say Out Loud There is an assumption people make the moment they hear the title Deep & Raw: The Erotica of Martone. They think they already understand it. They expect something immediate.Something physical.Something indulgent.Something designed to provoke and then disappear. But what
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Song Released March 13, 2026 “Under the sun rivers ran deep. Two hearts awakened from ages asleep…” These are the opening words of my single We Loved Each Other Through It — 250 Years of America—a reflection on love, endurance, and what history reveals about survival through unimaginable circumstances. Love like that does not exist
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The Singer/Dancer Prepares Before I ever stepped into my identity as a recording artist, I was a listener. I was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan—a place that, at the time, didn’t always feel connected to the energy I knew existed somewhere else. I was always destined for something bigger, faster, more alive. That pull
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