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I want to write everyday because how else will I notice – and remember – how certain moments felt? Those glimpses of clarity, those realizations? I can…

Dec 19, 2022

What can AI teach us about ourselves? A mixed bag on memory, grief, running, and a haunting (CW: body dysmorphia, sibling loss)

Dec 7, 2022

100 days of creativity

Apr 8, 2022

Wow. New Year's Day, 2021. I made it. And if you're reading this, you made it too. 2020 was, for all its faults, a necessary year. It was filled with so…

Jan 1, 2021

A smattering of tomatoes rest on my counter, flecked by sunlight that has found its way through the blinds. Some are fat, some are tiny. Some are…

Sep 19, 2020

All weekend – the slowest, most anxiety-ridden weekend I’ve had in a long, long time – I kept telling myself I’d use some of the extra time to write…

Mar 15, 2020

Right now I am re-reading Joan Didion's "Play It As It Lays," a novel she wrote in 1970, and one I return to every year or every other year. One thing…

Dec 9, 2019

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