Mar 15, 2021What it means to bloom before the fallShe was once a girl coveting a rose, a tight bud, barely open, verdant leaves hiding what lies beneath. Just one, please – she doesn’t have enough for the dozen. A dozen years. Her father calls to her from the kitchen, He’s here, he says. She grabs the rose, a…Aging3 min readAging3 min read
Jun 12, 2020An Open Letter to the White Women in My LifeYou know those hypotheticals you run by little kids, in order to make sure they know how to stay safe? “If you were walking down the street, and a stranger in a car pulled up and asked you a question, what would you do?” “If you were home alone and…BlackLivesMatter5 min readBlackLivesMatter5 min read
Jun 12, 2020Why I Decided to Start Calling Myself a RacistI haven’t always considered myself a racist. I thought it was enough to sit back and congratulate myself for being raised in an all-Black neighborhood in New Orleans, for having Black friends, not seeing color, voting for a Black President. I adamantly (but silently) denounced racism, shook my head (silently)…BlackLivesMatter3 min readBlackLivesMatter3 min read
Jan 17, 202010 Shifts You Can Make to Overcome Default ThinkingDefault thinking is keeping you stuck. Your life experience has ingrained in your brain a particular set of opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and “truths” that you return to over and over again. Evolutionarily speaking, these defaults are useful. It’s efficient to know intrinsically and immediately which way to turn when you…Limiting Beliefs5 min readLimiting Beliefs5 min read
Jan 10, 2020Disaster PlanningI started this decade as a 34-year old corporate professional, a wife of a Navy doctor, and a mother of a 15-month old sweet little boy who could curl up inside my heart with one look. In this decade, I moved into two new homes in two new cities. I…Planning4 min readPlanning4 min read
Published in The Startup·Jan 10, 2020Ambition and ContentmentMy daughter just started doing perfect cartwheels. She couldn’t do them at all a few months ago. I certainly didn’t teach her how to do them, as I have the athletic ability of a toad. She’s not in gymnastics class, cheerleading camp, or dance. She simply made up her mind…Life Lessons4 min readLife Lessons4 min read
Jan 10, 2020The Gift of the StarlingIt started in April, the spring that my backyard turned into something out of a NatGeo special. First, it was the mourning dove nest in the guest room window. …Short Story8 min readShort Story8 min read
Jan 10, 2020The Four Worlds of Trying to KnowOne. In this world, we are lost in a dark, dark wood. We stumble into one another and into trees and brush, with our hands out, groping a hidden path in the darkness. We cannot see. We do not know the way. We walk in circles of error, grasping at…Fear3 min readFear3 min read
