I typically write myself a letter on my birthday, and do some birthday portraits. Last year was my 30th birthday and Kamala Harris had just lost the presidential election and I wasn’t particularly feeling my best, so I didn’t do it. Instead I wrote a list of 100 things I wanted. And I’m going to […]

I wonder, sometimes, what is “too much.” Sometimes everything feels like that. Sometimes nothing. Today my husband called me in the middle of the day – that’s surprising because at work he can’t typically call me. But today he was driving from one location to another and had the time. The problem is that more […]

Are there archives of old newspapers? I’ve been wondering what writing looked like pre-ai. It feels like everything reads like ai now. Even substack a community that is theoretically full of writings also reads like ai. Then I started thinking maybe that was my own personal bias? Maybe I wanted everything to read like ai […]

The 3 Bonus Things I’m Prioritizing for the Next Year in My 30s (and How I’m Planning Around Them Each Week) *Also – please remember that everything doesn’t have to happen all at once. Things are able to go slow when necessary. It doesn’t have to be 3 times a day it can be 3 […]

What does it mean to gentle parent ourselves? As you read this story you might ask yourself what does this have to do with the question: What does it mean to gentle parent ourselves? but I promise it does! Yesterday, I dropped everything to drive to Sequoia. I did it because I had been influenced […]