Articles · 13 essays
Essays & poems
Finished pieces on identity, love, belonging, and hope. Each one first appeared on my Substack, where you can subscribe to get new ones by email.
2026
- Self-Love Is Not EnoughWhen did growing up start to mean needing no one?
- A Theory About Why I Fall in Love So Easily (That I Don't Fully Trust)If you've ever wondered whether you loved someone or just loved who you were around them.
- on happiness, i supposeon looking for it everywhere except where i am
- "Real love does not automatically make a person capable of receiving it."But when you are drowning in your own reflection, you don’t know how to reach for the hand on the shore.
- The Fear of ForgivenessWhen guilt starts speaking for everyone else.
- The Evidence...Maybe it's just me, but if you've ever gone looking for evidence that you've been happy before... I don't think we're as alone as we think we are.
- The Geography of BelongingI don't think my friends realize how often they've saved my life simply by behaving as though I'd always be there tomorrow.
- The Rain Will Not ApologizeWhy, after drowning once, do I still look at the clouds with hope?
- The Horcrux Theory of LoveYou can love people deeply without them knowing all of you.
- What I've become good at.The moment I stop articulating, I disappear. And I'm not sure which is worse: being known for a version of myself I've carefully constructed, or being unknown because I stopped bothering to construct.
- The Knife You Hand Over"The cruelest mercy is being told it will fade."
- What it costs to matter.I have spent my life trying to lodge myself inside other people like a splinter.
- The Exhaustion of HopeThere is something deeply humiliating about hope.