Where It Started
My parents’ analog-era, long distance love story
This essay is for you if you want to believe in love again
What Almost Was
A Greek love story that only lived in one place & time
This essay is for you if you want to be whisked away into a full blown romance
A fleeting encounter in Florence & the grief of a chance not taken
This essay is for you if you’re in the mood for yearning
Breaking two years of silence & finding out he'd been holding onto the good the whole time
This essay is for you if your gut has ever disagreed with the story you were telling yourself
What I Had To Unlearn First
On the relationships we neglect & the ones we tend back to life
This essay is for you if you've ever wondered whether something could still grow if you started paying attention again
On trading people-pleasing & self-abandonment for the practice of choosing yourself
This essay is for you if love has let you down & you want to take your power back
On being seen & valued for who you are, not who you could be to someone else
This essay is for you if you want love but are also terrified of getting hurt again
Letting a compliment land instead of handing it right back
This essay is for you if you've ever deflected kindness before it had the chance to settle
What’s Still Ahead
Rebuilding what love means, from the ground up
This essay is for you if you've done the healing work & still feel a little lost
Recognizing quiet, easy love through the glimpses you've already had
This essay is for you if you want proof that love exists in the little things too
An imagined future — the kind of love that never asks you to shrink
This essay is for you if you're finally ready to picture what easy love might feel like