A summer spent choosing family over the churn — and the embarrassingly simple thing I understood between the meals, the stories, and the long afternoons.
Category Archives: BE
The Things We Cheer For
On one Saturday I moved between Brazil, Haiti, and New York — and felt both what sport still gives us and what the country hosting it withholds.
Nowhere to Be
A painting at the Norton Museum made me realize how uncomfortable I’ve become with doing nothing at all. Danielle Mckinney’s women understand something I’m still learning: that authority over your own time may be the greatest luxury there is.
I’ll Always Be a Teenage Girl
A red couch in New York. The friendships that built me. A personal essay on staying open, staying curious, and the girl who still lives inside.
Where You Can Be Seen, But Not Held
Travel offers visibility—moments captured, documented, remembered. But not every experience moves with the same ease. In some places, you are seen everywhere, and still not fully accounted for.
The Things That Do Not Rush
Slowing down is not a mindset – it’s a rhythm you have to relearn.
The Shape of Community
Community was not something we searched for – it was something we lived inside. This is a reflection on what happens when that disappears, and what we begin searching for in its place.
Learning to be a Friend
An essay on intimacy, distance, and what it means to show up — imperfectly — for the people we love. If the past year and a half has taught me anything, it is the importance of connecting with others — most notably loved ones. Those inherited, and those chosen. As always, the irony of lifeContinue reading “Learning to be a Friend”
Dwelling in Other
An essay reflecting on childhood and memory, shaped by the landscapes that first taught me what it meant to belong.