Brunches on the weekends. Phone calls > texts. Summer holidays in Tuscany. “Bestie telepathy.” Transparency and compassionate honesty. Mirroring (and reflecting) vibrant, emotionally mature, healed energy.… This is what we’ve manifested. We are mutual warmth in an ice storm; and sisters from another life. -- As a wayfarer, and someone who’s ever reinventing herself, maintaining friendships while simultaneously chasing creative pursuits, career aspirations and a dream existence is challenging. Truthfully, I am the quintessential “busy” friend. The one who’s always...

Nuzzled in a submarine valley of surreality, I am 1,800 meters under water; inhaling sand at the bottom of the world… The Earth is simultaneously blatantly aggressive and dreamlike, and each blink (and rapid closing of my eyes) shuttles me between microcosms, causing vertigo from the ricochet. I am alive, I am stirred. I am drowsing, I am insomnolent. I am asleep, I am entombed. I am inspired, I am still. I am resolute, and I am "cogito, ergo sum" –– thinking...

There’s an invisible thread connecting me to Andalusia… When I was a little girl, I spoke fluent Spanish and English. However, by the time I was five years old, no one else around me spoke the language so I lost the ability to speak Spanish. At times, I'm still able to understand small snippets of conversation, so of all the languages that I come into contact with, Spanish sounds (and feels) the most familiar. Years later, when I first began my...