Writer, Podcast Host, Advocate
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou
Welcome! Thanks so much for checking out my website. I’m an L.A. based writer who works in entertainment news journalism, and the host of the podcast, In the Know with Erin Glow. I’m also currently working on my first memoir and just started dabbling in vlogging. Here you’ll find information about all the projects I’m involved in, including my blog, YouTube channel, podcast, and advocacy work. You’ll also find some of my favorite quotes. 😉 Feel free to browse around and find something you like. I hope you’ll join me on my journey and enjoy what you see!
– Erin
The Latest
The Christmas Special
(12/18/22)
Hey guys! The Christmas Special of the In the Know with Erin Glow podcast will be released on Dec. 23. It’ll be the last episode of 2022. Stay tuned for more brand new episodes in the new year and check out the calendar page for the episode schedule, which is updated regularly, and the podcast page (or any podcast platform) for audio of the episodes. Thanks for listening and Happy Holidays!
Past Updates
The Autumn Special Recipes
(10/20/22)
Check out the Autumn recipes Tony, Derek, and I shared on the latest episode of In the Know with Erin Glow below!
Erin’s Apple Cider Glazed Chicken
Ingredients
1 large sweet potato, peeled and cubed
2 apples, sliced
2 tbsp. olive oil, divided
1 tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary
kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
6 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, trimmed
2/3 c. apple cider
2 tbsp. honey
1 tbsp. Grainy mustard
1 tbsp. butter
3 rosemary sprigs, for skillet
Directions
Step 1. Preheat oven to 425°. In a medium bowl, add potatoes, apples and chopped rosemary and season with salt and pepper. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil and toss until combined.
Step 2. In a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat, heat remaining olive oil. Add chicken and sear, skin side down, until golden, about 2 minutes. Remove chicken from heat while you make the glaze.
Step 3. To the same skillet, add apple cider, honey and grainy mustard. Bring mixture to a rapid simmer and cook until mixture has reduced slightly then whisk in the butter. Return the chicken to the skillet, skin side up, and scatter the sweet potato mixture and rosemary sprigs around the chicken. Turn off the heat and transfer the entire skillet to the oven.
Step 4. Bake until the sweet potatoes are tender and the chicken is cooked through, about 20 minutes. (If potatoes need longer to cook, transfer chicken to a cutting board to rest and continue cooking until tender.)
Step 5. Serve chicken and potatoes with pan drippings.
Nana’s Green Junk
Ingredients
1 lb. cottage cheese (16 oz.)
1 can of crushed pineapple
1 6 oz. box of lime jello (dry)
1 9 oz. container of Cool Whip
1 can peaches drained well
cherries (optional)
Directions
Step 1. Dissolve package of jello in 1 1/4 cup boiling water.
Step 2. Mix all ingredients together.
Step 3. Pour into a mold dish and put in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours or overnight.
Step 5. Garnish with cherries if desired and serve while you imagine Nana smiling down on you.
Derek’s Greatest Pie On Earth
(Makes 2 pies, for 1 pie cut recipe in half)
Ingredients
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
4 large eggs
1 can (29 oz.) Libby’s 100% pumpkin puree (or other brand)
2 cans (12 fl. oz. each) CARNATION Evaporated Milk (or other brand)
2 unbaked 9-inch (4-cup volume) deep-dish pie shells
Directions
Step 1. Mix sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves in a small bowl
Step 2. Beat eggs in a large bowl
Step 3. Stir in pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture
Step 4. Gradually stir in evaporated milk
Step 5. Pour into pie shells
Step 6. Bake in preheated 425 degrees F oven for 15 min. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F; bake 40-50 min. or until knife inserted near center comes out clean.
Step 7. Cool on wire rack for 2 hours. Serve immediately or refrigerate
In the Know with Erin Glow Podcast Update
(07/19/22)
Hey, everyone! Just wanted to give a quick update about the podcast. Several new episodes are now up on podcast platforms, the podcast page on this website, and YouTube. They include recent Mother’s Day and Father’s Day specials and some other fun guests I had the pleasure of interviewing. In the Know will be rolling out a regular schedule sometime in the near future and feature more episodes, including more themed shows on various topics and other exciting and inspirational guests. Please remember to share and subscribe to the podcast if you like it, so we can continue helping it grow and reach more people. Thanks so much for listening! If you have any topic/guest requests, or if you’re someone who is interested in being a guest on the show, just send me an email at erin@eringlow.com. Would love to hear from you!
Leaves & Lives of Change
(10/05/20)
Happy October, everyone! It’s officially the month of pumpkins, falling leaves, horror movies, and cooler weather in most places, and I’m beyond thrilled. To me, fall has this mystical quality about it that no other season has, and between sipping on cozy maple lattes and listening to the sweet autumn notes of “Harvest Moon” by Neil Young, I’ve already just about fully sunken into it.
It’s definitely a weird time in the world and it seems like there’s never a shortage of negative and/or chaotic topics on just about every social media or news site that most people go on daily. Let’s face it, it all can be exhausting. It seems like one day we wake up worrying about what moment will hit us next and another day, we’re just trying to find anything that makes us smile. Despite the uncertainty and discomfort of it all, it’s important to remember that things are always changing and it’s kind of our responsibility as humans to roll with the tide and adjust as best we can. The alternative just leads to neverending inner struggles – the result of an illusion of control beyond our realistic means of control.
The guaranteed changes in life are like the changes of the leaves on the trees at this beautiful time of year. The changes bring on all the different colors of our emotions, like the colors of the leaves as they fall to the ground and go through their natural phase. Sometimes we’re heartachingly blue, sometimes we’re passionately red, and sometimes we’re warmly yellow, but these emotional colors come and go, and without them, we’d never be able to learn, to grow. Like the transformation that comes with the seasons, we need to allow our lives to go through the various stages that lead to the cycle we can’t escape, and we must do so with gratitude and love for ourselves and others.
Personally, I find that my life is going through a lot of big changes right now – something that often triggers anxiety – but this time, I’m trying to gradually go through their waves and embrace what I’m learning instead of attempting to run away from them. It doesn’t feel easy by any stretch, but it’s so much easier than holding onto something that’s no longer there. We can reminisce about the past and long for it, but we can’t live in it. We already have, when it was the present, and that’s how it will always be.
So I encourage you all to take a deep breath during this crazy time, and take each change as it comes with a little caution and a lot of heart. As we’re all trying to do that just a bit more, I’m so excited to say that I have some projects that I’ve been working on for a while and I’m finally getting ready to launch them in the weeks to come. I’ll also be updating my blog on a more frequent basis to keep you all in the know with what’s going on.
Be on the lookout for announcements right here on my website and on my social media pages very soon, as I publish information when it becomes available. In the meantime, I hope you’re all finding reasons to smile and helping out someone else in whatever way you can whenever you can.
The 30 Day Love Letter Challenge
(3/23/20)
Hey guys,
I’ve been getting ready to officially launch a new section of my website called Love Letters (check out the new menu option at the top), which will be full of various pieces of my writing on personal topics. Think poems, essays, journal entries, etc. That sort of thing. It’s my way of letting out my deepest feelings in the creative way I love and hopefully helping others who may be able to relate to some of the things or people I talk about. Since the state of the world has rapidly changed as I was working on this over the last two weeks, it’s inspired me to come up with a special introductory project to Love Letters that I’m hoping will help lift people up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. I’m calling the project The 30 Day Love Letter Challenge. Read more below.
The 30 Day Love Letter Challenge
The 30 Day Love Letter Challenge is a challenge I created and will happily take on starting March 23, 2020. The goal of the challenge is to write one letter a day to a different person (living or passed) who has affected my life in some way, shape, or form for 30 days straight. It doesn’t necessarily have to be to a person I’m still close with and/or still talk to. It can be to someone I haven’t talked to in years. It can be to someone I’ve never even met. It can be to anyone I feel the need to thank and let know how grateful I am for how they’ve impacted, and possibly still impact, my life.
I’ll be posting each letter on the Love Letters page on this website every day until the challenge is done. Since I’ll be making these letters public and I prefer to be more private about my romantic relationships, I’ll be writing to just family, friends, and inspirations and will be saving the writing pieces about exes and current sizzling flames for my more discreet future Love Letters section. 
Lastly, I want to challenge all my readers to write their own love letters. You can join me and write 30 for 30 days or make up a number that’s comfortable for you. You can publicly share them like I’m doing or keep them private between you and that person. They can be short or long. It doesn’t matter. The goal here is to spread as much love and gratitude as we can to people at a time when we could all use it more than ever.
Maybe it’s because I’m a writer, but throughout my life, I’ve always believed we should always let people know when they’ve made a difference and touched our hearts at some point, so I’ve already written a lot of letters over the years, and I’m so thrilled that this project allows me to write even more. I hope the people I choose to write to will be pleasantly surprised and I hope it reminds them just how loved they truly are.
Check out the Love Letters page for my first love letter on Mar. 23 and the 29 days after that. I look forward to sharing with you all.