Cancer. It is the one thing said that can never be taken back.  There are words that calm the current, like “recession” and “remission”.  But even the coveted “gone” does not pull back the tide. The salty taste of its condemnation lingers in the back of your tongue, waiting for its time to break free. […]

I remember our last Mother’s Day. I was living in Boston for an internship, but had gone to New York for the weekend. I scrambled around to put a card together, along with a book of cute mother/child animals, and wrote something about how much I missed her, it had been a month and a […]

I’m sitting in my room looking at this red frame I have, with that quote hand typed, several colorful strings in a chaotic ball beneath a hand-cut gold star. It was a gift from my mom, during another point in my life when I desperately needed inspiration, and her faith in me to keep me […]