Substack

Washington DC is a city that drips with expertise. Everyone here has a credential, a title, a carefully curated LinkedIn profile that proves they belong. It is not a city that rewards winging it.

I have a track record of winging it and adulting on my

She almost cried in standing head to knee.

Not because it hurt. Because it didn’t — maybe for the first time. She contracted her lower abs, felt her lower back lengthen and round, and suddenly there was space where there had only ever been

Somewhere on the drive between Lake Tahoe and Los Angeles, the night before Bikram Choudhury’s Spring 2011 teacher training began, I had a dream.

I was on a train moving fast through a lush green jungle — the kind of green that doesn’t exist in

I want to be very clear about something before we begin: I was not on the apps.

I said I was done and I meant it. After Jake — and if you missed the Jake issue, please go read it immediately, I’ll wait — I made a promise to myself and to this

It is Mother’s Day and there is a young woman asleep in the bedroom next to mine.

She is not my daughter. I did not raise her. I missed most of her teenage years and all of the in-between years when she was figuring out who she was without the people