#MeToo

Wow. It's been awhile since I've written a post. The tumult of the last two months has left me grasping for words. Has found me moving through my life one step at a time, just trying to keep my head above water. Reconciling the legacy of a person you once knew and the things they...

Grief

When you hear the news you will not understand. Once it hits you - your breath will leave your chest. When it returns to you, gasping, you will let a wail follow you down the street as you rush to your car. Sit behind the wheel and weep - let the full weight of your mourning...

Peter Pan

When I was a little girl I wanted to be peter pan. Or at least to be swept away by him in the night - to fly off to a land where I would never have to grow up. I remember crying to my mother at 4 years old, devastated by the realization that I...

Alone

During my stay in London, I made an intentional effort to spend time alone. I was trying to investigate what existed underneath the layers of self I had created for the needs and desires of other people - to discover who I was without the context of all the people I have known. So I...

Release

The list of things I hold against myself has gotten much too long. It's time for clearing out the cobwebs. For letting the sun stream in and releasing myself, and others, from my unrealistic expectations.

London

I recently spent almost a month in London. I was there to study theatre at the Globe - and it happened to be at this really weird time in my life where I had just started going to therapy and I was incredibly disillusioned with most everything. To put it more frankly, I was depressed. And had been for several months. So this trip functioned not only as an incredible...