Otherworldly Pockets
Why do depictions of realities unfathomable to us seem so interesting? When you're younger, you watch shows of adults living in a big city and find it fascinating. You read a scary novel about ten people abandoned on an isolated island with a murderer living amongst them and find it horrifying. You watch movies in fictional far away lands, with magic and feel an odd sadness knowing those places don't exist. What might captivate us most, isn't necessarily the reality itself, b
Jun 254 min read
The Death of Third Spaces
How often have you had a space that wasn't work, or school? A space where money wasn't a requirement, where people can exist alongside one another, and friendships can sprout and grow. The death of third spaces stems from a variety of evolution—rising costs, social media, changing city design, adulting, etc.—but perhaps the question is not whether third spaces are dying. They have. Instead ask, what did we lose when we lost them?
Jun 114 min read
Controlled Comfort
What do you reach for when you're feeling down? A stuffed animal from your childhood? A horrible movie? A show you have seen twenty times? The sudden hankering for the gym—a feeling that lay dormant for months until the very moment you need it for letting off steam, not actual gym rewards? We tend to yearn for comforts that bring us some form of control when we lose our grip on it—but what do your unique comforts say about what you need?
May 74 min read
Performative Living
Where phrases like "office siren" "coquette core" and "red tomato taxi cab theory" is just word salad and makes no sense? This extends to trends and phrases that only make sense to those performing lives they don't normally have. And while it really is that damn phone, I don't only mean social media. Performative living is exhausting because you stop experiencing life directly and start experiencing it through imagined audiences. Ask yourself, is this joy? Or display?
Apr 303 min read
The Five-Year Plan
The infamous "I've-got-it-all-figured-out" certificate, the five-year plan is treated like a proof of maturity. If you know exactly where you'll be, who you'll be with, what you'll earn, and what city you'll live in, you must be serious about life. The plan seems to become muddy and not so clear when you plan not just careers, but relationships, family timelines, and futures built around variables you can't control. Is the five-year plan more of a hindrance or a help?
Apr 174 min read
The Hidden You
We all have secret behaviors that only make an appearance when no one else is around—those tiny, private versions of ourselves that feel too strange, too dramatic, or too unfiltered for the outside world. So I’m curious, what’s your secret “no one’s watching,” hidden-you behavior?
Apr 34 min read
Odds Are...
Odds influence the choices we make, the risks we take, and the moments we avoid. But they are not absolute!! Just because you don't think you can beat the odds does not mean that you won't. Often times the journey to something worth doing, is uphill.
Mar 254 min read
