I cried on the way home from work today. I couldn't hold it in any longer. All day long I saw people posting their loved ones on socials, showing off their beautiful bouquets of two dozen red-roses, and witnessed so many gifted the biggest "heart" shaped box of chocolates. I found myself feeling nauseous, my …
The fruit on my kitchen counter looks nothing like a Cézanne. It's a bit bruised and brown in some spots. There are a few rogue produce stickers as well as a suspicious soft spot on the bottom of one of the apples. It's just fruit, though. Nothing about how I've placed the fruit on my …
I write when I need to work through my emotions. I write to understand the world I am experiencing through words. Today though, I need more than words to find meaning, Joan Didion penned, "Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate …
Two hundred fifty five weeks. That's how many weeks I've lived here in New York City. If you can't do the math, that's five whole years. Someone asked me the other day if I was excited to leave the city? I thought about it for a moment and said I would have to get back …
I keep uttering the same quote to myself over and over again, "The best kind of writing is the kind that scares you. I mean, down to the bone scares you." —It's one of my favourite quotes and applies perfectly to how I am feeling as I write this. I haven't written in what seems …
I like lists. I like To-Do lists. I like packing lists, grocery lists, check lists, and even bucket lists. Heck I even write index lists which is a list of all my different lists. I like 'em all. I like to create them, to check things off of them, and to complete them. I just …
I've been staring at this blank page for what seems about three months now. Writing this has taken an inordinate amount of time. I have written and re-written blog posts—wanting to post them but just never finding the right words to describe how I've felt. This loss of words had prompted me to dig deep …
Uptown Maven 