Journals / Musings / Reflections
How fantastic to make tangible a dream through the mere act of stamping symbols onto a page. Read on to find out what’s been on my mind & subscribe to the newsletter to be notified when I make a new post!
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Reading, Writing, and Talking About Writing: Attending my first conference for SWANA writers
10–15 minutes*SWANA (Southwest Asia & North Africa) is used as replacement language for “MENA” (Middle East & North Africa). MENA is an orientalist, colonial, and geographically inaccurate acronym to refer to…
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Re-wilding, Self-Keeping, and Art-Making: What’s in your soil?
17–26 minutesThree years ago, I ditched my front yard lawn for a meadow of native grasses, wildflowers, shrubs, and ground cover. What was a square of yellowing grass is now a…
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Things Keep Clicking
19–28 minutesEver write a year long blog post? I started this essay on January 5th, 2025 and was determined to finish it today, December 5th, 2025 in my home office with…
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Internalized Misogyny, Mental Health, and Thunder Song: Why is my iPhone 15 Pro running out of storage?
13–20 minutesThe first day of Spring is rapidly approaching. It is astounding how as time marches on, every January feels slighter longer than the last and every February passes in the…
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Picture Books, 20/20 Vision, and Radical Hope: Do you still believe that it can’t happen here?
14–21 minutesWhat is the first book you remember reading? Several come to mind right away for me. The first is Pinduli, a picture book by Janell Cannon that followed the adventures…
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Amended Origin Story: Regrowth
14–22 minutesIt has been seven years since I built this site. I feel like it is time to give an updated introduction and breathe new life into my writing.
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When Success is no Longer Fulfilling
7–11 minutesThe world is never going back to normal. Nothing that we knew will ever be exactly the same as it was, I mean. In this historically transitional period, many of…
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Headlines
4–5 minutesScrolling through the “news” threads on Reddit has felt more and more like I am slipping into Underland. I am honest to god serious. What else do my friends mean…
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Turning the Decade
5–8 minutesThe last few days of the decade are nigh, and I just realized I haven’t made a single post here since January. How can a whole year have gone by…
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Oblivius: A Gallery
1–2 minutesThere exists a dissonance when you finally acknowledge that which had previously gone unnoticed. It’s all subconscious consumption and blissful unawareness until you wake up one morning in a bed…
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Confessions of A Troubled Writer
5–7 minutesHello. It’s been a while. Quite a while, actually. As per the title, welcome to my confession-session about being smacked in the face brutally hard with some good ol’ writer’s…
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Desert Daze
2–3 minutesI am in love with the desert. The jagged canyon walls and sandstone mountains surround you in a world of muted reds and pinks. You come home to the city…
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