Essays
Essays is the home for my nonfiction writing.
These pieces grow out of experience and attention to the forces that shape private lives: family, care, responsibility, identity, power, and belief. Some essays stay close to the personal. Others step back to examine patterns, systems, or tensions that resist easy resolution.
What connects them is not argument or conclusion, but a commitment to looking carefully and allowing complexity to remain intact.
Taking the first Step to Writing a Novel
A reflection on starting a novel, overcoming paralysis, and building momentum through small, consistent steps.
So, You Want to Write a Book
Writing a novel wasn’t part of my plans until a moment shattered my assumptions about responsibility, silence, and care. What followed was not just a story, but a reckoning with what it means to carry love—and consequence—at the same time.
Becoming Visible: Identity, Design, and Choosing How to Be Seen
As writers grow, visibility becomes a choice rather than an accident. Revisiting early decisions about design, language, and identity can reveal whether they still reflect who we are and the work we’re ready to stand behind.
Quiet pieces shaped by lived experience. Moments of pause, noticing, and meaning.
Writing from inside the work—endurance, doubt, revision, and the long middle where stories resist and slowly take shape.
