Journal

What Quiet Feels Like

Field Notes from a Human Life It’s not silence, exactly. It’s not the absence of noise. Not the soft murmur of a dishwasher at 9:30 p.m. Not a cancelled meeting....

Don’t Ruin Today by Trying to Win It

Part of Unpolished Advice—occasional dispatches from a recovering perfectionist with strong opinions and limited patience for life hacks. Somewhere along the line, we turned living into a competition. The game...

The Day I Almost Moved to Italy

It started, as many things do, with a very bad Tuesday. The kind where your inbox is full of obligation. Where your face looks tired even after eight hours of...

What If You’re Already Halfway Home?

Field Notes from a Human Life You know that feeling when you’ve been walking for ages, thinking you still have miles to go, and then someone tells you—you’re almost there?...

Stop Making Yourself a Project

At some point, “working on yourself” became a full-time job. And I don’t mean the thoughtful, quiet kind of introspection you do when something cracks open. I mean the industrial-strength,...

Emotional Literacy 101

If school had been designed for actual life, there would’ve been fewer pop quizzes on igneous rocks and more lessons titled: How to be disappointed without imploding What to say...