Words & Language

I thought other people could taste words, too. Truly I did. This is where I write about them: the power of a single article, what gets lost in the shift of one noun, and why the word and the concept will always be separate. Every word is a thought exercise.

Narrative

First hand, first person, first drafts. This is the category for the stories, the structure, the question of who gets to tell it and how. “I seem to have been waiting for magic, a better map, a preferred list format… there isn’t magic to writing my story. It’s me. It’s real.”

Process

Being an artist means trusting yourself to come back. To harness or recognize or yoke it somehow. Then bring it on home. This category is about what making things actually looks like from the inside.

Authenticity

Think for yourself; your writing will flourish. Speak without oversight — your truth may prevail. Showing up, thinking critically, reflecting honestly: it sets you apart. This is where I prove it.

Body of Work

The meta-conversation: what it means to share your work, what counts, and what it costs. Mixed content for people who are also — mixed. Transaction versus interaction. I say.

Meaning

Meaning is for humans. This is the category that asks: does their answer matter? Does the fact that their process of thinking created an answer out of thin air matter? Absolutely.

Oneliners

Only words. Only pixels. Only human. This is the short stuff — the lines that could be bumper stickers or tattoos or the last thing someone says at a party. Hard to read and hard to read are not the same thing.

Mother

Think of me as your Fairy Wordmother. This is where I write about the people who made me and the ones I’m making — the nuanced things a daughter notices about her mother that would make her cry 30 years later if anyone noticed, much less expressed them.

Currency

Autonomy is the real currency. This category covers value, money, attention, and what we actually trade when we think we’re making transactions. It was never just a transaction — it was actual.

TMHTQ

This Might Have To Qualify. Also stands for Teach Me How to Quit. The career exploration category, the job journal, the ‘cultural anthropologist of my own life — ten-day job excavation.’ Every odd job, each reinvention, all of it documented.