PERSONAL ESSAYS
Some stories begin with a puppy.
Essays on love, healing, and what it means to grow alongside another soul.
— a journey with Daisy
What is this
A book in the making. A life being understood.
This site is where the research lives. As I write a book about a woman and her dog — about the years they grew up together, the quiet lessons and the loud ones — I find myself needing to think out loud.
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 happens. They are not finished thoughts. They are honest ones.
Daisy didn’t know she was teaching me. That might be the most important thing about her.
Recent Essays
From the journal
On Mental health
On Asking for Help (A Thing I Learned from a Dog Who Has No Shame About It)
Daisy asks for what she needs without apology. She is hungry, she tells me. She is lonely, she tells me. She is frightened, she tells me. I have been trying…
Read more →On Uncategorized
The Self I Lost and the One I Found
I had been performing myself for so long that I had forgotten what the original looked like. Daisy seemed to know, somehow. She kept looking at me like she was…
Read more →On Connection
The Weight of Being Chosen
She chose me before I knew how to choose myself. There is something undoing about being loved by a creature who has no reason to lie. I didn't go looking…
Read more →Walk with us.
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