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 and unmet expectations is the sort of tenacity we could use a little more of. Bravery that dares to speak the truth and to spread its arms wide, to […]
About this time last year, COVID-19 began sneaking its way into San Diego, forcing us into the unfamiliar isolation and halting pace of a shelter-in-place. To remind us we weren’t alone in the weirdness (and to some degree, scariness) of […]
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 […]
Darkness, you feel permanent. As the healthy fall sick, casualties of humanity’s pursuit of frenzy and movement, casualties of being alive. Darkness, are you outside? In them? In me? Darkness, you feel thick yet transparent, pressing in so hard I […]
Words seem superfluous, unnecessary, and out of place – much like everything else right now. With what feels like a frozen clock and unmoving calendar, we have more time than ever to create and write and dream, but what is […]
The complexity of grief is that we are dually grieving both a first and second loss. The first loss is what sets us grieving in the first place – cancer snatching our sister too soon, the cruel and unnecessary homicide […]
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 […]
In celebration of my twenty-sixth lap around the sun, I hopped on a plane to Kansas City to soak up 72 hours of autumn leaves, falling snow, and the people who transformed the midwest into a second home. After a […]
The temperature will soon be dropping to propel the trees into their best show of the year, as their transitioning leaves invite us to pause and look up. The iced beverages that have been providing us relief from the summer […]
