Author: Cailynn Hensen

I’m a “feelings person.” Meaning, when something feels right (or wrong), that feeling is often the only reason I need to go through with that thing (or not go through with that thing). When I look back at certain moments in my life and big decisions I made, it turns out that the initial feeling I […]

Have you ever been a part of something for a relatively short amount of time, but it’s felt like so much longer? That’s how I feel about the last year! This time last year, on the Monday before Thanksgiving, I reported for my first day of work at Magic 98. Nearly a year later. . […]

October 11 is recognized as “National Coming Out Day.” If we’re friends on Facebook, you may have read my story in the past. It’s something I’ve shared before. I don’t share it to pressure anyone to come out. I share it so that you know that I was scared too – and I made it.  […]

Up until a couple years ago, there were two things I thought to be true: I don’t have a hobby, and I can’t keep a houseplant alive if my life depended on it. It wasn’t until a couple good friends of mine sent me home with some “plant babies” that I realized I actually do […]

Ahhh, here we are… on the heels of Labor Day Weekend, the “unofficial end of summer.” If your kids aren’t back to school yet, they probably will be very soon. Seeing all the back-to-school themed Facebook and Instagram posts over the last couple weeks has me thinking about my time in school, and the things […]

I grew up blocks away from the county fairgrounds in my hometown. We were so close that most summer nights during the fair, if I wasn’t at them, I was falling asleep to the demolition derby and tractor pull roars. When I was in my early 20s, I worked for the county license center (aka […]

This weekend, our clan grew by one furry family member… say hello to Thomas the kitty! (He’s actually a five-year-old mature cat, but more on that in a second.) Thomas isn’t exactly a stranger either, we have history! Here’s the story: shortly before my fiancé, Leah, and I started dating, she adopted Thomas as a […]

When I talk to people about traveling to Las Vegas, I’m finding that there are two types of people: those that don’t want anything to do with it, and those that love it and go back year after year. I, myself, am turning into the latter, although as of last week, I’ve only been to […]

One of my social media profiles reads, “Loud, proud, born ‘n bred Midwesterner.” It won’t take you long as you scroll through pictures of my dog, pictures of my houseplants, snippets of my Madison adventures and life at Magic 98, and more pictures of my dog, to realize that the word “proud” holds more than […]

I know we can’t actually go back in time and talk to our younger selves, but we can have fun thinking about what we’d say to them if we could! And we did this week on the Magic 98 Facebook page: “If I could talk to the younger me, before I graduated high school, I’d […]