After years working in global conflict and human rights, I now write on illness, death, and the geopolitics that still won’t let me go.
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Future Tense
Last week, my writing group prompted us to write about ten things we had lost. This is one of mine.
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Dear Liver
Every reflexologist finds it. I never tell them the diagnosis. Every time, somewhere in the middle of my right foot, the thumb stops. Presses again.
“You have some congestion here”, one says.
“I’m getting a strong response here,” says an...
Terrible Clear Weather
2026 is only half over, and already it is defined by the friends I have lost to Cholangiocarcinoma.
Cancer friendships are not like other friendships. There is no need for small talk. You already know too much.
You know the wait for sca...
No There There: Notes on Planning My Death
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is running out of room. Six years, by their estimate.
The announcement came before Cemetery Shorts, Rooftop Films' annual short-film screening held among the graves.
I was back there on a warm June evening...
Built for a Shorter Story
Laughing sets it off. Not a polite laugh, a real one. The huge, involuntary kind that erupts from somewhere low and takes the whole body with it. That’s when the coughing fit arrives.
I can’t fully inhale without triggering one. Two laps...
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I spent years documenting other people’s catastrophes. Then one arrived in my own body. Essays on war, illness, grief, and what survives. How to stay curious and open-hearted inside systems not built for us.
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