Category: Miscellaneous

  • These Past Months

    These Past Months

    The summer solstice fell on June 21st this year. Then the midway point of 2023 passed, and I finished James’ Clear‘s Atomic Habits a few weeks later. All of this has culminated in a pressing need to take a moment to pause, be present, and ask myself: How are things…

  • Pinch Me

    Pinch Me

    This morning, six weeks after moving to Germany — and after years of wanting this to be my reality — I marveled that I’m here. This happened. My husband and I came back a few days ago from a trip to see his family in Tunisia; though we saw ancient…

  • (Un)Making a Home

    (Un)Making a Home

    Familiarity is comfortable and change, no matter what it looks like, is unbearably hard. Earlier this month, I said goodbye to an apartment I loved deeply, a safe space that was home to me for longer than any other place before it. (And look at that light!) This is the…

  • Doorways

    Doorways

    Time flies. Very soon, I’ll be living in Germany. I’ve spent the last several months purging, going through a lifetime of papers, art supplies, trinkets, and things put in closets years ago and long forgotten about.

  • Permission to Be

    Permission to Be

    I chose “ease” as my word of the year precisely because recently, it hasn’t been easy. And I haven’t yet figured out how to write through it, preferring instead to emerge from my protective cocoon once everything feels more manageable again, painting in the meantime. I took part in Oliver…