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Ember & Brook
Each Tuesday, I take a story from television, a novel, or a film and follow it back to something true about the lives we’re actually living. Not a recap. Not a review. A mirror.
Subscribe on Substack“The stories you love have been trying to tell you something.”
Ember & Brook is for midlife women who use stories not to escape their lives, but to understand them. You’ll receive one thoughtful essay each week, written from inside the questions rather than above them.
Selected writing
A few ways in.
What They Carry
Sentimental Value and the question I’m most afraid to ask as a mother
A story about motherhood, regret, and the frightening distance between who we were and who our children remember.
Still Hungry
Why STOMP! cracked open longing and containment
What happens when art reaches the body before the mind can organize its meaning?
Leaving the Woods
Hamnet, grief, and what it costs to stay human right now
A reckoning with beauty, comfort, moral attention, and the question of what love asks us to loosen.