Since I could hold a crayon, I've loved to write. Outside of work, I write personal essays — on family, the body, ritual, and the idiosyncratic ways we make meaning out of ordinary things. A couple of published pieces:

• Her Legacy (Hippocampus Magazine) — on my mother's jewelry collection, inheritance, and the question of what I'd pass on.

• Religious Experience (The Rumpus) — on coffee, Catholicism, and the daily rituals that carry us through loss.