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 Authenticity
Paper
Everyone warned me about the dust and the cost and how long it takes. But no one mentioned that for as much as you change the room, the room changes you.
Read more →On Connection
A slice of cake
Somewhere along the way I turned my life into a performance, and everyone around me into an audience. All except one.
Read more →On Healing
One wall at a time
A cold half-finished room, a dog asleep on my feet, and a wall I'm learning to paint. It turns out this is what I'd been waiting for all along.
Read more →Walk with us.
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