Not all at once. Not in a way you can point to and say, there, that’s when it happened. It is slower than that. Quieter. More like what I once called a strategic thinning. A leaving that does not require a suitcase. I learned early that pain does not always announce itself in a way others recognize. Sometimes it shows up as discomfort you cannot quite name. Sometimes as tension in the body. Sometimes as a question you do not yet have the language to ask. And when you try, whe

There’s a moment when something stops being an idea and becomes real. For me, that moment is this: My book Every Cat Needs A Home  is out in the world. And it feels less like a launch and more like… letting something go that’s been sitting with me for a long time. Where This Story Came From This isn’t just a children’s book. It started in a house on Gansevoort Street. An old house. The kind that creaks. The kind that holds stories whether you ask it to or not. And then there