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 …
Ugly Beautiful
A guy friend in college once told me I could be hot if I tried. I wasn't offended. I knew what he meant. He meant I had socially-acceptable features that, if I made more of an effort, would be attractive to men. He meant I should wear mascara more often. He meant I should …
Women of the Wild
"Where's your boyfriend?" a man asked me on the summit of Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills. It'd been a bad week, so I'd left work early that Friday and escaped to the mountains, my go-to move when the world's feeling extra heavy. This was my third summit of the day, and I …
People in Parks 