This is not who we are

I’m seeing a lot of media and social media posts calling the perpetrators of the act of terrorism that at current count has killed 16 people in Bondi Beach on Sunday 14th December 2025 ‘evil’. Calling this act ‘evil’ puts a distance between us and the people doing the...

My grandmother died and I’m glad

September the 9th was the 9th anniversary of my Babushka Anna’s death. She died in 2016, before Trump 1.0, and certainly well before Trump 2.0 and the very public rise of the far right and fascism that we’ve seen over the recent almost-decade. As I reflected on her...

We Must Save Each Other

[Content warning: mention of holocaust] I’ve written before about what to do about feeling like the world is burning around us. Through the beginnings of Trump’s US, of transcending terror, of how to get through when the world is rough, and some unedited rambling...

Write, regardless.

The struggle to write your book while the world feels like it’s spinning out of control is real. How can you take time to get your writing done, your book finished, your published book out there with your name on it when everything’s on fire?  The answer is to...