lightening up

Share It can be so easy to assume that we are the only ones struggling, the only ones who are trying to carve out a space for ourselves and then being met with challenges. While the voices that tell us that we are alone/the only one might not be the same as those that directly … Read more

how to cook your life

Share Tonight I was chatting with McCabe and she related that in a class she’d taken, a teacher had told the class: “This class is going to bring up all your shit, and it’s going to be the best thing that has ever happened to you.” Or something like that, loosely paraphrased. And I wanted … Read more

at the starting gate…

Share Polaroid, Oakland Chinatown. December 2009. I feel in this moment very much the way I remember feeling in school, right before the teacher said “You may now pick up your pencils and begin the exam,” or in gym class when the teacher was lining us up for a race: “Ready…set…go!” Also, very much the … Read more

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