Personal
‘Sometimes All The Time’ is a series of essays brought together in one space through moments of growth, impermanence, and tenderness. Sometimes these elements, even with the best of intentions, don’t land us where we expected to be. But, all the time, they carve out who we end up turning into: getting fired from a job you weren’t too good at, the problem with getting close to other humans, a night in the life of running a pizza shop, and the facade of finding peace, if such a thing exists. You can read these stories below.
What does one do with all of the unpublished Word documents that have festered on their desktop? This is a collection of work from 2018 that deserves a domain to call home. A DIY wedding near a biblical sinkhole, what millennials are doing instead of starting a family, the spider apocalypse, and dirty New Yorker cartoons.
‘Reasons For Leaving’ is a small series of stories that explores the vulnerability in candor. Everyone has their breaking point with a job, although no one likes to admit what truly broke them. A man faces social pressure to exude masculinity. A woman lives with the societal pressure to be "careful," and how that unsolicited message continues into her adult life. In a outro, I address the normalcy of ugly crying and how people cope with the guilt of feeling sad.
A Collection of essays
"Mommy Issues" is a collection of personal essays about a complicated woman. I’ve kept these stories hidden for over a decade and I knew they’d bubble and boil over one day. This series is an attempt to overcome my fears about the woman who raised me and convince myself that I did the right thing in the end. It is my own form of closure and releasing it to the public has been a part of that process. Rather than asking for sympathy, this project is a hope that people will simply understand and others with a similar complicated woman in their lives will feel understood, too.
To tell this story, I needed to use film from my adolescence, a time when young adults are on the edge of leaving home yet feel more trapped than ever. The photographs are composed of pale Miami skylines and empty beaches to capture a sense of abandonment, the theme of this project.
Mothers are not perfect, but neither are their daughters. In creating this series, I vilify myself by exposing such personal stories between a mother and her daughter. I’ve wondered if some of our secrets should remain exactly that—secrets. The entirety of this project is not only closure, but also a confession.
"It was painful to read and yet it was spoke with sublime clarity like a wounded bird that chirps it can't move. I think she has incapsulated the narcissistic personality with honestly some of the traits of the borderline personality. It is heart breaking. I am stunned and I have seen a lot."
-Joe Navarro, former FBI profiler and author of What Every Body is Saying and Dangerous Personalities