I am not married yet, so I want to be honest from the start. This is not me talking from experience, this is me thinking out loud about something I have been trying to understand. For a long time I assumed marriage was just dating…

For most of my life, my instinct toward losing something was always the same. Get it back. If something slipped away, I would chase it, hold on tighter, try to fix it, try to return things to the way they were. I treated every loss…

There is one simple thing I learned back in school, but only truly understood after I grew up. No matter how big a number is, if you multiply it by zero, the result is still zero. A hundred times zero is zero. A million times…

One day I sat quietly and a rather unsettling thought hit me. When did my life turn into a checklist? School, then college, then a job, then earning money, then owning a house, then getting married, then having a family. Everything lined up neatly like…

I realized something the other day while waiting for a food delivery. The app said fifteen minutes, and somehow those fifteen minutes felt long. I kept checking the screen, watching the little icon move on the map, slightly annoyed that it was not here yet….