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the songs that changed my year | 2023
In 2023, I discovered or rediscovered 431 songs on Spotify. Making these discoveries – and sharing them with others – is my absolute favorite hobby, dating back to when I used to make literal mixtapes by waiting for certain songs to come on the radio so that I could get the playlist juuuuuust right when…
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november.
I’m hurting for the world, lately – so much so that I can barely find the words. Living in a city like New York means being confronted with the full spectrum of humanity on a daily basis. This both grounds me and saddens me in a way that living in small towns never could. Lately…
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three junes (heart).
“I have a dinosaur heart, cold, massive, indestructible, a thick meaty red. And I have a glass heart, tiny and pink, that can be shattered.” – Louise Erdrich, from The Sentence At the end of a yoga class, I see my own heart as clearly as I once saw the knot in my stomach. It…
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adventures in solitude: the breathing room of old friends (maine, october 2022)
[context | soundtrack] Before I fly to Maine, I spend the night at my father’s house for the first time in more than nine years. We toast at dinner to the end of a very difficult chapter and I listen to his wife speak about how, after some time, thinking about her own first marriage…
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the real work.
In some ways, I’m a fast learner. I take in large amounts of information quickly and speed through books, always anxious to find the meaning, to derive the lesson, to know and to share what I know with others. Many of my past relationships have been defined by witty banter and rapid exchange of information…
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adventures in solitude
adventures in solitude is my travel diary from 2022 and 2023. Inspired by a well-timed and well-worded question from my oldest friend, I set out to try and find “home” during a period of significant grief and loss. After taking a giant jackhammer to my life, I looked at the pieces scattered around my feet…
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cold plunge
I was in Mexico with my sister earlier this year, and we sat through a two hour timeshare presentation in order to get free massages, because we are good midwestern girls and therefore did the math on what the spa treatments would cost vs. what we thought our time was worth. While we walked away…
small magic 