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Personal Essays

46 and Still Becoming

When I look in the mirror lately, I see someone tired.

Jun 5 •

I miss my dad...

If you’ve been reading Beautiful Things Grow Here,

May 29 •

The kind of grief that doesn’t get flowers

There’s a grief no one talks about.

May 22 •

How Poetry Gave Me Back My Voice

I didn’t lose my voice all at once, I lost it like a slow leak.

May 14 •

What Trauma Teaches the Body

I didn’t know I was being gaslit until years after the worst of it.

May 8 •

Sea Salt and Silence

Poetic Sundays

The doubt they planted in me

It took over two decades to get a proper diagnosis.

May 11 •

There’s a kind of hunger that isn’t satisfied by food or drink.

May 4 •

Some things we don't remember writing — but we remember the feeling that made us pick up the pen.

Apr 27 •

The Magic in Your Sensitivity

This week’s poem holds a truth I’ve been learning to embrace: our sensitivity is not a flaw to hide, but a gift to honor.

Apr 20 •

A Spine of Steel

Some lessons are inherited like heirlooms — handed down without question, Carved into us before we know how to speak our truths.

Apr 6 •

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