Life

From Iran to Brazil

A New World of Taste, Experience, Love and Coconut Cough Syrup.

Time-Squiggle: Rethinking the Timeline

Looking back at my 20s from the other side of 30

What My Grandmother Left Behind

How grief changed everything — and why I’m grateful for it.

We’ll Always Have Stockholm

Coming to Terms with Childhood Trauma

Quiet Aches That Happen in Your Thirties

Silent, heavy burdens no one admits.

60 Needles Per Hand, Because I Care What Other People Think

It sucks. It hurts. But I keep going back.

Charged Phones and Bodies in the Basement

Opposites apparently do attract

What It Means To Grow Up Abroad

A Texan Reflects on 23 Years in Norway

‘The Adopted’: I visited a WW2 soldier’s home in Michigan to see what he sacrificed

At his home in Lansing, his family shared the remarkable bond they have forged with the Dutch who adopted his grave.

How I stopped apologizing for existing and learned to take up space

A newborn love, a pandemic, a…