childhood

on the inner child

Apr 27, 2025

musings

anxiety, astrology, Carl Jung, childhood, depression, Disney, generational trauma, healing, inner child, Japanese, mental health, millennials, music, pedagogy, psychiatry, Saturn Return, spirituality, switzerland, zodiac

a wise man once told me, “keep going and never look back.” his tone was deep and serious, with pauses punctuating each word. his expression appeared blank, but underneath was something I couldn’t see, only sensed. at the time, I was in the impressionable state of youth, and didn’t take seriously the gravity with which…
on my relationship with food

Jun 7, 2024

musings

2000s, adolescence, anxiety, Cheerios, childhood, college, culture, diet, food, foodways, France, GERD, morocco, nutrition, United States, weight loss

food is the longest relationship any of us will ever be in, simply, because we all eat. in my first piece, my Mediterranean breakfast, i discussed my earliest foray into the goodness and simplicity of foodways via my grandmother. she exposed me to my still-favorite vegetables such as eggplants, bell peppers and cooked spinach, though…