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.

So, You Want to Write a Book

So, You Want to Write a Book

by | Jun 2023

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.

A small garden stream flowing over rocks beneath a stone footbridge, surrounded by greenery and flowers with the word Reflections.

Personal essays on meaning, idendity, and care

Close-up of book spines and pages arranged closely together with the words writing life overlayed.

Process, practice, and making stories

Exploring ideas, systems, and hard questions

Aged leather-bound volumes on a shelf at the Library of Congress, suggesting literary conversation across time.

 Books, authors, and ideas in conversation