*Trigger warning: This story recounts an incident of medical trauma. If you find this topic upsetting, please be kind to yourself and skip this story or seek support, if needed. I’m sitting on the edge of a table. My pants […]
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My son recently enjoyed his first Christmas celebration while my eighty-year-old grandfather savored his last. On December 16th, these bookends of life––one story collecting its first details and another penning its final chapter––collided in a bright living room in San […]
Eating food was – for a long stretch – equivalent to swallowing razor blades and expecting a positive outcome. When something so vital began to backfire with chronic pain, it became a losing battle trying to keep any weight on […]
The sunset ignites with pink, orange, & purple hues once again.I notice the leaves – they’re dancing – inviting me to move, to play.Tears transition from markers of grief to cascades of gratitude.Laughter, it bubbles foreignly, a new soundtrack to […]
Her spirit ached,Fatigued, but too stubborn to release,The bucket of rocks she was carrying.Each stone, a story,Memory,Of a life who’d touched hers.Sometimes through a book, a video, an essay,An honest, even painful, conversation with a friend,Other times through small interactions […]
The words come out fumbling, as if I’m telling the story of someone else’s life or repeating gruesome details from the scene of a suspense film. It was already three years ago, but my mind involuntarily recalls seconds and minutes […]
I often feel like a walking contradiction,My steady undercurrents of easy laughter and unquenchable curiosity,Wonder at the world and whoever just might be in front of me,Now, in this moment. Constant.Contradictions, parts of me that seem permanently altered – damaged,A […]
An Interview with Melody B. Courage that has named its fears is the sort of tenacity we could use a little more of. Bravery that spreads its arms wide, to the left and to the right, invites others to grab […]
There are a handful of remarkable people who walk into our lives and, without even realizing it, we find ourselves introducing them as family. Timmy Pourkazemi is one of those for me, and so it is with absolute biased excitement […]
We are nearly four weeks into 2020, the time when new year’s resolutions may be starting to fade, and I, for one, am already feeling a bit weary, and it seems much too soon for that. In the few short […]
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