An honest story about quitting exercise, making peace with softness, and finding joy in other kinds of movement.

We mistake long-term partnership for knowing someone deeply.

But knowing is an ongoing act.

What if not knowing is its own form of care? A quiet reflection on curiosity, attention, and the things we choose to leave unnamed.

What if knowing isn’t the goal—but staying curious is? A story about humility, parenting, and learning to look again.

A new map for friendship

It’s not an exhaustive list but it runs the gamut from chocolate to petrichor.

Surrender has never been safe for me. It has never meant relief … only risk. My body does not associate stillness with safety. But here, now, I am trying.

What do these achievements really mean when we are 50, 60, 70 Do they validate us? Do they make us more credible, more worthy?

Each of us choreographs this dance of doing and being in our own way.

In The Ripple Room, we create side by side—not with rigid instruction, but with curiosity, encouragement, and the joy of simply making.

There’s a meditative quality in making repetitive marks or playing with colors. It’s all about immersing myself in the process—a process that reminds me I’m still here, still capable, still me trapped inside an uncooperative body.

Each token is accompanied by conversation, by eye contact, by the vulnerability of saying, “I see you. Your work has dignity. Your presence matters.”

I am choosing to embrace the beautiful complexity of my own desires, even if it doesn’t make sense on a business card.

I share my story not to garner pity … but to shed all the stigma and burden around it.

I had realized early on, I was always going to be on my own. I, me, myself.

It's a struggle to reconcile the daughter they raised with the woman I've become, a woman who has achieved success on her own terms, yet still grapples with the echoes of their unmet expectations.

It’s been a sacred space with an accidental audience.

It’s taken me almost three weeks to fully recuperate from the event and in this time, I’ve had a lot of interesting, quiet conversations with myself.