There are moments in life that feel so emotionally significant that language struggles to hold them. This past weekend was one of those moments for me. Seven years ago, I met a student whose face looked like a deer in headlights. Nervous. Unsure. Overwhelmed. Over...
I think something I’ve been searching for my entire life can be summarized in one quiet sentence: Show me my freedom. Not in some dramatic, runaway kind of way. More like a question humming underneath everything for years. Show me where I can breathe. Show...
I’m realizing there’s a difference between being kind and abandoning myself to avoid upsetting people. Recently, I had to make a difficult decision involving someone I cared about personally and professionally. The reality is that things at the agency had not been functioning well for...