Words & Reflections

Burnt Toast

An essay on the beauty of imperfection — what burnt toast, missed flights, and wrong turns teach us about grace, faith, and the unexpected gifts of disruption.

The best things sometimes arrive through the side door — slightly charred, slightly late, and entirely necessary.

I Know Nothing

A meditation on love, uncertainty, and the growing realization that not knowing might be the most honest thing we can offer.

Maybe the admission of not knowing is where love actually begins — before the certainty, before the performance.

My Soul Is Loud

On the experience of having an inner world that refuses to be quiet — what it means to be deeply observant, intensely feeling, and creatively alive.

There are people who carry entire worlds inside them. Quiet on the outside, thunderous within.

Deadly Game of Chess

On perfectionism, writer's block, and the radical act of creating anyway — even when nothing feels good enough.

I have played this chess game with myself every day, and every day, I have yet to move a single piece across the board.

The Oracle

A hungover morning on a London train, a mysterious woman who sees too much, and the quiet passage of strangers through our lives.

It felt as though she could see right through me. It was as if she knew everything, like some ancient, all-seeing oracle.

Dog Days Are Over

A love letter to August and a reckoning with endings — on seasons changing, summers that save you, and the strange electricity of being in-between.

This summer was different. It was the end of everything and the start of something I have yet to understand.

Behind the Mirror

On looking in the mirror and finally meeting yourself — the woman you became instead of the one you thought you had to be.

Love, A Risky Dancer

A quiet reckoning with love and its edges — the question of whether what came before was love at all, and what might still be waiting.

A Secret Place

A poem about the storm of longing — and the slow, tender discovery that the love you've been reaching for was always already yours.