“So your full time job is writing here? That’s so important.” I usually dismiss comments like that — because in a sense, working with words is as natural as tying shoes to me. Sure, there is the work of pulling…
beauty and not being there yet
Yesterday I went to the Balenciaga in Black exhibit at the Kimbell. Being that it was the last day of the show, there was a buzz of excitement in the line (which formed .2 seconds after the doors of the…
Why I’m Still Not Over the Season 2 Finale of “This Is Us”
Dear This Is Us, You must know it (because everyone tells you), but you just have this way of always hitting it absolutely dead-center, out-of-the-park in the way you capture family life and basic human experiences. Your talent is so…
Running to catch the wind
Do you ever have weeks where you keep hearing the same message over and over again? Like all the forces of the earth are uniting to lay a message at your feet? It feels silly and impossible that all the…
yes times a million
“… if you can’t learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you’ll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting. And that would be a pity, because your life is short and rare and amazing and…
12 Hours in Paris
One of my favorite games to play when I have a minute to kill — standing in line at the store, washing my hair in the shower, walking down the street, you know … those kinds of moments — is…