I’ve believing that somewhere else would finally feel like home as I’ve grappled with the discomfort of life transitions and the unknown. This season of my life is teaching me something different, though. Maybe coming home was never about finding a place. Maybe it has always been about returning to myself.
June was emergence. Quite literally for me, as I moved from teaching full-time into summer—a literal emergence from one season into another. Though it didn't unfold the way I imagined it would. Every year, when school ends, I spend the first week of summer doing much the same thing: sleeping, resting, recuperating. Letting my nervous… Continue reading July: The Queen’s Garden
We often hear that prosperity will trickle down, but what happens when wealth no longer circulates? I recently came across a quote that said, "There is no such thing as trickle-down economics, only modern-day fiefdoms." Whether or not you agree with that conclusion, it sent me down a path of asking a different question: What happens when wealth stops moving and begins to pool? "The Dammed Economy" is my attempt to answer this question for myself. It's a reflection of ownership, opportunity, and why the river may be the best metaphor for understanding our modern economy.
Sometimes life doesn't hand us the thing we imagined because it wasn't the destination. It was the invitation. The rehearsal. The practice match that shows us we're finally ready when the real thing arrives. Some opportunities change our lives. Others simply reveal that we've already changed.
Twenty-Two years into a teaching career I love, I expected stability. Instead, I found a widening systemic gap that debt, budgets, and hard work can no longer bridge. It's time to stop treating financial struggle as a personal moral failing and ask the deeper question: What happens to a society when survival consumes all of our energy?
Why does life feel paused when everything on paper is perfectly fine? If you are feeling a restless craving for more meaning, purpose, and aliveness, you aren’t alone. We are standing in a collective doorway. We are no longer who we were, but not yet who we are becoming.
We often think people-pleasing only happens in toxic relationships. But what happens when we use understanding to silence our honesty in healthy ones?
Modern dating feels impossible because the old rules are obsolete. Discover why both men and women are grieving the changing landscape of love.
What if love isn’t meant to feel like a battlefield? A reflection on how we confuse intensity with connection, and why healthy love often feels like peace, safety, and coming home.
I was one class away from finishing my master's degree when I asked my dad for help paying for it. He said no. Looking back, I wonder if that moment became the foundation of my hypervigilance; the belief that if I planned well enough, carried enough, and anticipated every possibility, I would never have to ask for help again.
Always, Your Trusted Friend