Reading Room
A selection of personal essays. Find your way in.
Love Essays
My parents’ analog-era, long distance love story
This essay is for you if you want to believe in love again
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
The art of saying nothing back, & meaning every word of it
This essay is for you if you want to laugh about love’s regrets
How making yourself smaller erodes everything that makes you who you are
This essay is for you if you want to know the cost of diminishment & would rather not go through it yourself
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
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
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