It’s been 45 days since I quit drinking. I don’t live in the Bay Area, and I’m not a sober-curious Twitter influencer. Where I am, quitting alcohol is…
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Reflections on work as freedom, self-discovery and self-care.
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I like reflecting; some might call it overthinking. But you know, the “unexamined life is not worth living” and all that. Usually, only my journal and…
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I never know where to look, or what to expect. But I feel magnetically pulled to birdsong… And I always give in. What I do is not birding, which I’m…
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Interrogating the "sea of sameness", standing out, and spikiness as a yardstick of self-authorship
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“You’re not a victim! You need to get out of that mindset,” Ayan said, exasperated. I was sobbing breathlessly. I had just returned from a “family…
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Many years ago, a dear friend from law-school broke up with me. My unfolding new relationship with a man - her ex from a few months ago - was the…
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I had just run my first 5k. As I rode the elevator back up to my apartment, I felt flashes of light shoot through my stomach till it burst open on my…
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