I am writing again in a way that feels new and familiar like when I first learned to read and the words took time to rise in my mind, whole and full of meaning the way you make me feel, whole and full of meaning. and I am trying to not be this girl, the…

I started listening to the podcast Philosophize This!, which breaks down philosophical ideas for us plebians. I’ve been skipping around from philosopher to philosopher and some of their ideas have inspired me more poetically than existentially. I. Learning to tell time according to St. Augustine What is time in reality, and how is it measured?…

Exactly 3 months after your 21st birthday you will be pretty much over bars/clubs and will only want to drink at a) parties where you know at least 5 people or b) the comfort of your own home. That being said, it is definitely possible to board an international flight while still drunk/hungover (sorry mom)…

Most of you know a while ago I wrote a goodbye post to a friend who was leaving on study abroad for a year. Today I write another one, this one a bit more final, but not permanent. We’ve graduated and my brilliant friend Estelle leaves for grad school at Sciences PO and I don’t…

don’t pull any punches   I’ve been in this ring before let me have it and let’s pretend that this isn’t pretend.   knock my teeth out bloody and I’ll give you a mouth full of roses break a rib and remember that eve was made from one of adam’s lights out. it’s better in…

when you cut into a branch and the wound is green then you know that spring will come, all by itself and no matter what.   Within weeks those branches will be heavy with blooms.   You are making me remember that I, too, know how to bloom, all by myself and no matter what.  …

Since I’m writing my senior thesis on the theme of national identity I have logically been thinking a lot about identity. Not just within the framework of political science but on a far more comprehensive as well as a much more intimate scale. In an age where identity politics are simultaneously lauded and villified, what…

There’s a New York Times piece that has been going on around for a while on the “36 questions that lead to love”. This set of three dozen questions posed mutually by a pair followed by some extended eye contact is supposed to make you fall in love. It sounds prosaic and clinical but also…

Here I love you Here I love you in the quiet air that holds me as I move through this world Lost in the quiet haze of remembering lips flush against peach skin back, wrists, neck. All the soft and waiting geographies. Here I love you in between day and dawn and dusk and night,…

I have been alive for nearly 22 years and there are certain national tragedies that I will never ever forget. The first was 9/11, but as terrible as that was, I didn’t understand the implications of it at 4 years old. But some part of me knew that something important was happening. The second didn’t…