A COLLECTION OF BRIEF REFLECTIONS
Becoming, belonging, boundaries, queer life, and the sacred usually hiding somewhere painfully ordinary.
WHY NOTES?
I collect things: little mantras, questions, a sentence that catches me off guard. A phrase arrives while I’m on the subway or doing something ordinary, and I grab my phone before it disappears. Later, I go back. Sometimes there’s something there. Sometimes there isn’t. The pieces that stay become these brief responses to everyday becoming.
When I studied creative nonfiction as an undergraduate, I fell in love with all the shapes a story could take. I’m a big fan of Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp”, with its numbered observations, and of aphorisms: those small thoughts that can open a door without turning into an essay.
Notes On is my creative writing corner. I can follow a question, try out a metaphor, or sit with a line I wrote on my phone weeks ago and finally see what it was trying to tell me.
RECENT NOTES
BEGIN ANYWHEREA NOTE ON VULNERABILITY
Therapy can feel like a doorway into the unknown. Perhaps beginning is a form of daring greatly: arriving with the parts still deciding whether it’s safe and allowing ourselves to be known, one honest moment at a time.
Read the reflectionA NOTE ON REST
A NOTE ON BELONGING
A NOTE ON BOUNDARIES
A NOTE TO BEGIN WITH
Pay attention to whatever keeps tapping you on the shoulder. It might look ordinary. Look again.
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