The art of new beginnings
For the person whose life looks right on paper but no longer feels like theirs. Essays on identity, transition, and the courage to begin again. \ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffb
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The Architecture of an Ending You Didn’t Choose
Me, last year in April, when that message landed. I was caught up in my thoughts.
There are three griefs inside any ending you did not choose. I only knew the first one — the easy, socially legible one — until a Teams message arrived at 2:...
I Stopped Needing the Answer. That Was the Answer.
My cat Lucy in the early morning, at sunrise. That’s our favorite time.
At 5:32 this morning, before the world had any opinions about my future, I sat in my little office at home with a glass of something green and a cat named Lucy curled...
What You Take With You That You Didn't Pack
My apartment was ready within the first week.
Every time. Every move. Every new beginning — the boxes unpacked, the pictures on the walls, the kitchen organised before I’d even learned the neighbours’ names.
I told myself I was efficient....
The Work Underneath
The questions to sit with when you know which hallway you’re in.
The essay “Why is it taking so long” names three hallways. This one is for after the naming — for the part nobody else will sit through with you, which is the slow work of fi...
Why Is This Taking So Long?
Mannheim…10 years of my life in total
I once moved three times in a single year.
It was 2010. I was finishing one chapter, starting another, and for a few weeks I lived out of a hotel room in Frankfurt, trying to make a fresh start work t...
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24 moves. Left corporate twice. Still in the middle of it. Sunday letters on what it actually feels like when the old life no longer fits — and the new one isn’t clear yet. I made a workbook for this phase. It’s free when you subscribe. \ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffb
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