I create beauty in places other people destroy or [allow to] break.
Sides
People seem more committed to taking a side than in being in real conversation and connection with others. Coincidentally, at least three friends ...
Skinfolk
Recently, I’ve had to manage a situation in which a group of people conspired to keep my voice silent and erase my contributions. It is so ...
Angels & Outcasts
My dad’s library occupied the south wall of my playroom, the converted garage where my brother and I spent the bulk of our time when we weren’t ...
Mind and Body
When I was a kid, there was a park near our house that we just called Lake Elizabeth. My parents would take us there to feed the ducks and play. ...
The Path and the Pack
“Every woman is the leader of her own life.” -Abby Wambach When I take stock of the life I’ve built for myself and the friendships I have around ...
A Clean, Well-Lighted Life
A couple months ago I decided to take a class on Jewish meditation at the Chabad Intown. With very little knowledge of what I was stepping into, ...
Gratitude and the Inevitability of Death
I held my dad’s hand the night he died. Through four to five hours of hallucinations and fear and struggles to run beyond his own consciousness. ...
Elite Adjacent
I think it is only at this point in my life that I realize how hidden this other Black reality – shared by everyone with whom I grew up mind you ...
Good Neighbors
It’s hard to imagine that nearly a decade has passed since I convinced my brother Alphonzo to abandon his posh Press Club job in San Francisco to ...