You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. {an excerpt from Wild Geese by Mary Oliver} Lately, I’ve been having many conversations with my … Read more
In the process of having my website redesigned, Leah Tompkins (design + branding extraordinaire) and I were having a conversation about my desired aesthetic. I mentioned a friend of mine, saying that since I adore her so much and respect her work, I want to cultivate a very different look though we have similar tastes … Read more
Just one year ago, I remember peering hungrily into my Instagram feed as a dozen beautiful women gathered. Now, of course, images only depict one, carefully curated part of the story, but these images ignited something deep in my gut. This yearning, fire and grit, bubbled up – hot and unyielding – and took me … Read more
This week, I wrote a secret prayer for a woman that I don’t know . I rolled it up and laid it sweetly into an a tiny altar that I had made for her, surrounded by star shaped sparkles and images of blooms budding. I wrote: You deserve a revision – then another. Delicious, unhurried … Read more
In the beginning, I built a business on a foundation of self-love, but, ultimately, building my business taught me what it really meant to stand by and take care of myself. In the beginning, I wrote (often) about the importance of loving yourself and of accepting yourself exactly as you were. I wrote about body … Read more