Excruciating Intimacies: Navigating Through Poetry
It isn’t intimacy unless it feels a little tender.
Relationships
Navigating Family, Friendship, Marriage, Colleagues, Companions & other social connections
BOOK: Home – Manju Kapur | Coming Back To Me
A lovely return to my late 20s where books absorbed me with a rigour I did not experience in my social or professional life. It was like coming home.
Second COVID Stupid – Smooth Egg Brain
The second dark COVID of my soul is here except it doesn’t feel quite as dark. I feel stupid and it is peaceful.
Focaccia & Fortitude – Healing From Scratch
The world still doesn’t know how & why death shows up. How can there be any answer to why people turn out the way they do?
Body & Sex | Books | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships
BOOK | Fearlessly Flying With Erica Jong
Giving sex an easy place in my mind, required moving around the furniture inside my head – old traumas, inherited shame, cultural taboos. This book taught me flying.
Evaporation – The Marie Kondo of COVID
Two counts of COVID within three months. I’m forced to wonder what fearlessness really looks like now.
Wayfarer On An Open Road
Post COVID, life is uncertain but it’s an open road. Everything is a lesson, every meeting is a gift.
Back To School
I went back to my alma mater, this time as faculty. It brought me even more lessons. Back to school is always learning.
What Do We Owe Each Other In Shifting Normals?
We do not have a consensus on what love, commitment, sex or identity mean. Maybe we don’t need to agree. What do we owe each other then?
And Just Like That…I Found Friends Again
Finding myself at a lull between sumptuous stories, I wandered into a familiar storyline. And just like that, I found friends again.