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“Home is  a place we all have to find, chile. But it’s not just a place where you eat or sleep. Home is knowing, knowing your mind, knowing your heart, knowing your courage. If we know ourselves, we’re always home, anywhere.” ~Lena Horne, The Wiz Before my parents divorced, we were members of New HopeContinue reading “On Creating”

I credit Amy Poehler to some degree with my concerted efforts to not judge people on appearances alone. I don’t remember when I first became aware of who she was, but it had to have been somewhere in the years just after college. I didn’t grow up watching SNL, so I was completely removed fromContinue reading “For (Or Rather, Because of) Amy”

I’m a personal assistant and I don’t know how I got here. Every choice I made in the last year was with the expressed desire of not being an assistant anymore, much less the dreaded personal assistant. When I finished my job as a showrunner’s assistant for the show, Future Man, I vowed that theContinue reading “On Service”

it was when i stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself i found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole ~rupi kaur, the sun and her flowers There is a scene in season one of Netflix’sContinue reading “On Rebuilding”

An excerpt from Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday conversation with Tara Westover, the author of Educated, popped up on my IG discover page the other day. At one point, Westover referenced a scripture from the Bible. She identified the passage quickly, but it took her a moment to remember the words. It was clear that aContinue reading “On Change”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”                                          Continue reading “Broke Down Love”

This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn’t see them in my mind’s eye. NotContinue reading “Ghost Town”

I recently read Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and it was a revelation. There they were, the last three years of my life – well, all thirty actually, but in particular, the growth of the last three – laid out in an easily digestible format. There is nothing more satisfying to me than discovering aContinue reading “A Changing of the Guard”

Harvard has the best library catalog system I have ever encountered. Doing research for a paper was always fun because I just needed to find one book in the stacks and then look around that location to find other helpful sources. The books weren’t arranged by author, just topic. Simply fantastic. Towards the end ofContinue reading “Tell it Slant”

This time last year, a single sentence was looping itself in and around my brain, consuming my joy. Everything I have done in this past decade of my life has been a complete waste of time. I had a law degree that I had no intention of using and despite the intentionality and energy IContinue reading “A Testimony”