Reasons not to write: a non-exhaustive list.With footnotes. Very important footnotes.Apr 14, 202231Apr 14, 202231
The difference between loyalty and obedience — especially for writers and creators.Plus, Mary Oliver on the “third self.”Apr 7, 202230Apr 7, 202230
What writers can learn from the mantis shrimp.…and why sensitivity is a creative person’s greatest gift.Mar 31, 202221Mar 31, 202221
A story about cars and callings.This essay cost me $186.84. Plus $130, if you count the window repair.May 14, 202118May 14, 202118
We must embrace the soft stuff.On adopting a dog named Tomato, skies full of clouds, and other tender things — including a reframe of “productivity.”Apr 7, 2021831Apr 7, 2021831
On the “anniversary effect”…and the stories told by the vaccine rollout, from the perspective of a person with Type 1 diabetes.Mar 15, 202135Mar 15, 202135
Published inCuriousA Story about Breeze, Birds, and Breath.On hard conversations, conversation, and understanding the craving for quiet.Aug 25, 202080Aug 25, 202080
Published inTenderlyEfficiency Shouldn’t Be the GoalOn growing tomatoes and the insidiousness of work cultureAug 11, 2020631Aug 11, 2020631
A story about foraged flowers.On falling in love as the world ends, like we’re tending to one delicate rose that’s blooming, unfathomably, in the eye of the storm.Apr 10, 202011Apr 10, 202011
Published inHuman PartsA Study in GapsFinding meaning in the spaces betweenAug 8, 20191804Aug 8, 20191804
A story about the chives you’re here to chop.It began as jumbled mumbling before it crescendoed to a regular, raucous chorus in the background music of my mind: Write more.Mar 7, 2019Mar 7, 2019
A story about the salty sweetness of connection.The closer you get to other people, the more you realize how much you still don’t know, how much remains glint + twist beneath the surface.Jun 11, 2018Jun 11, 2018
A story about breaking through.There are so many ways we conflate difference with disaster.Jul 8, 2017Jul 8, 2017
A story about loss and redemption.We lose our tempers. We lose our trains of thought. We lose our minds and we lose sleep and we lose heart. What don’t we lose?Nov 21, 2016Nov 21, 2016
A story about broken bits.Animal, vegetable, mineral: things fracture. They falter. They fail. If it works, one day it won’t.Sep 27, 2016Sep 27, 2016
Dear lost, dazed, and very confused,For the entire duration of my childhood, I dreamed desperately of becoming a writer. (There was a brief moment when I contemplated a career…Jul 31, 2016Jul 31, 2016
A story about crumbled walls and common ground.In the wake of the Pulse massacre, the Stanford rape case, and a tangle of other unsettling current events, a few musings…On feeling “at…Jun 21, 2016Jun 21, 2016
A story about legs and limits.You are what happens inside the walls you build and the ones you break down.Apr 30, 2016Apr 30, 2016
Please, don’t turn on notifications for my Instagram posts.An alternative approach to Instagram’s new algorithm. There is a time to ask to be heard and followed — and there is a time not to ask, and…Mar 28, 2016Mar 28, 2016
There’s no blooming without back-and-forth.Spring is a fickle flirt. She’s a mercurial and meandering coquette, a capricious little charmer, always changing her mind…Mar 19, 2016Mar 19, 2016