People in Parks

when I.C.E. comes to town

January 28, 2026
This front-page story of my local paper makes me feel crazy and like I am living in a parallel world to everyone else.

When I.CE. comes to town there may not be signs. You will buy your pita bread and dairy-free yogurt and exchange pleasantries with the cashier who smells vaguely of cigarette smoke. You will go on walks and you will go to work and the sun will still set over the ocean every evening. Life will feel the same.

But you’re you. You spend time online and with the world, and you will learn that life is not, in fact, the same. People are disappearing. From the courthouse. From their homes. From the bus stop on Route 1 near the animal shelter. You attend an orientation. You join the Signal chats. You get involved.
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Winter Flâneur: On Death & Tourism

January 10, 2026
December 4, 2025
Day 1, California –> Berlin

Getting your body from one point to another is exhausting. I wake up at 2 AM, drive to San Luis, park my car, walk the 1.5 miles from my friend’s house to the airport, and then fly on three different planes and walk through four different airports to get to Berlin. It’s early morning when I arrive, and I’m exhausted. I can’t figure out where the S-Bahn station is at the airport terminal, and I walk around like an archaeologist trying to interpret the airport signs and find the correct train line. I can’t figure it out. I pause, realize I am hungry and stupidly tired, so I buy a cup of yogurt at one of the airport takeaway places and regroup. I immediately find the S-Bahn stop right after that.
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To Chester

November 29, 2025
Baby’s first picture!

Last week I got a new car.

At 23, in post-college autumn, I bought my first car just days after my birthday. I was moving to the Poconos for a job and a car was a necessity. I got a loan from my grandparents and bought a 2012 Ford Escape with 42,000 miles on it. White. Front wheel drive. Boxy. I needed a car and I wanted something I could adventure in, something big enough to sleep inside of if needed. Yes, I needed a car for my job, but I had bigger visions beyond that.
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Top Books of 2024

January 6, 2025
I read 46 books in 2024—a little over 13,000 pages—and here are some of my favs, in no particular order.
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Alpenglow: A Nepal Travel Diary

January 5, 2025
Annapurna right before sunrise.

Before

Here’s what you need to know about my before:

I studied abroad in India and the mountains wedged themselves somewhere between my fifth and eleventh vertebrae. I vowed to go back, to feel the Himalaya more deeply, to venture beyond the Garhwali range. I wanted to go for my 30th, but I didn’t quite make it. Two years late. Not too bad.
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welcome back

August 18, 2024
Another journey in the outdoors. Trying to get outside more, trying to write more. There & back again. For HCV 5725. For Terry Tempest Williams.
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Best Books of 2023

December 31, 2023
Annnnndddd the winners are…
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Pink Summer

September 26, 2023
This is the only picture I have that remotely involves either Barbie or Taylor.

It is September. September is a month of muddled change, a month of sunsets and back-to-school and the idea of autumn, which doesn’t exist in any profound way on the California coast. September definitively marks the end of summer and the slow drip toward the end of the year. It is a month where it is impossible not to think about time.
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superbloom

July 10, 2023
It’s a superbloom this year. It rained and gusted and poured and belched, and now the hills are a mosaic of color. Only once or twice a decade, scientists say, will a superbloom like this appear.
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10 books of 2022

December 31, 2022
I read a bunch this year, and it was a good time. I always try to read broadly–fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young adult, books with dragons, books without dragons, you know how it is. I’ve done a couple of book lists over the years, and I am always flattered and amazed that people read my recommendations (…am I an influencer??), so here’s another round up. Not sure these would be my top 10 of the year, but I liked them all and they’re the ones I wanted to write about. Happy reading ❤
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