Breathe
There is a list. You know the one. It starts early, earlier than you are ready for, and it does not stop. First it is the grades, because the grades determine everything, or so you are told at an age when you are still figuring out how to exist in a body and navigate a…
Still Becoming
There is a version of me that exists entirely in my own head and she is, I will be honest, a lot. She wakes up at a reasonable hour and does not immediately reach for her phone. She responds to things on time. She finishes what she starts. She is present in conversations without half…
Who Are You When Nobody Is Watching?
Who Are You When Nobody Is Watching? Most people will never know.Not because the answer is hidden or complicated or requires some kind of spiritual excavation. But because looking requires a particular kind of courage that most of us, if we are being honest, do not have. It is easier to stay busy. To keep…