A little over a year ago, my cat Chibi came into the world. I welcomed her home when she was a ball of fur so delicate she needed to be…
2025 was a year of grieving. Despite the glimmers – the first half with Miyo, the Niagara Falls, a restorative countryside break, my sister marrying her soulmate and my brother…
Little Things I Miss Where do I start? I miss… his eyes, the way he’d look at us. A dog will look into our eyes to tell us they love…
Insidious Forms of Bullying None of the many forms bullying takes could or should be considered mild.[1] When school is over, people keep finding all manner of abuse. One of…
At only just eighteen, with my head full of dreams and the deer-in-the-headlight defiant innocence of an unworldly ingénue, I traveled alone for the first time – a passage to…
As kids, my siblings and I had a subscription to the local library but, back then, I wasn’t a literature nerd. To take my pick, I’d flip through the books…
India, a Bittersweet Memory In summer 2013, I traveled to southwest India. With a mix of doe-eyed fascination and utter confusion, I soaked up all that was new and foreign…
Gendered ageism[1] has been weighing on my mind a lot as of late. It might have to do with the global pandemic adding to a pre-existing sense of impermanence. It…
Trying to Look the Part – Sugar? – No, thanks. A pause. The air thick with awkwardness. His gaze steady, he says, “men don’t like humble women, you know.” My…
“So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something…
