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hey there, you!

Thanks for visiting my personal blog! Due to a strange backend tech disaster, the old version of this site was completely lost. This is the primary digital hub of my writing online — a true passion project with no timelines or external pressure — so I’ll be slowly but surely (I mean, we are in the midst of a global pandemic) piecing together the newest iteration of this site. Please “pardon the dust” as we undergo construction here! Thank you for your patience & for holding space for great imperfection 😀 PS – yes, all the old…

what reinvention means to me (i.e., refueling my purpose)

Confession: I started writing this post today originally with a completely different intention. I’m familiar with the practice of letting my words carry me somewhere I never thought I’d go in the moment — welcome to writing and the art of conversation — so I surrendered to it. I promise this post has a point, so please be patient and let it unfold. After my junior year in Florence, I decided to change my major to Italian (that way, the culture classes I’d taken wouldn’t have been for nothing — this was an attempt to speed my degree along…