PERSONAL ESSAYS
Some stories begin with a puppy.
Essays on love, worth, healing, and a corgi
— a journey with Daisy
What is this
A life being understood.
This is where I write things down. Loving Daisy pulled a great deal to the surface — the years we’ve spent growing up together, the quiet lessons and the loud ones — and I’ve found I need to think out loud to understand any of it.
These essays are that thinking. They wander through love and what it asks of us, through worth and how we forget it, through healing and the strange, unhurried way it arrives. They aren’t finished thoughts. They’re honest ones.
Daisy didn’t know she was teaching me. That might be the most important thing about her.
LOVE
WORTH
SELF-DISCOVERY
HEALING
CONNECTION
Recent Essays
From the journal
On Healing
Permission to not be ok
I am missing someone today. Not in a big, dramatic way. It's softer, smaller, like when the kettle boils and there's only one cup to fill.
Read more →On Healing
The life that was waiting
Sometimes the things that break your heart fix your vision.
Read more →On Healing
Healing Doesn’t Look Like Anything
I kept waiting for the moment I would feel better. It never arrived as a moment. It arrived as a Tuesday, and then another Tuesday, and then a walk in the rain.
Read more →Walk with us.
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