Hiraeth Homecoming

Can a place we’ve never been shape our fate? Can discovering it unravel, stitch by stitch, the life we’ve known? Here I thread together the journey of remaking a life through art, travel, Morocco and finding home.

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A calm space for stories, ideas, and small experiments that shape my daily life, and a place where I share what I’m learning as I move through each week.

  • New Chapter

    New Chapter

    New chapters and perhaps this isn’t really a new chapter at all. It is a different volume all together. Like the encyclopedias we used to have as kids. A different book entirely but of the same collection. Gold letters embossed on a deep blue cloth spine. I’m here. And I’m not yet. I’m still in…

  • The flood and new friends

    The flood and new friends

    I had a sad day and decided to go to bed early. Fully asleep I realize there is knocking on my door. It’s the night door man trying to tell me something important. I’m half asleep and in my nightgown but catch the word lma…water. So, I gesture for him to come in. He checks…

  • Sad days

    Sad days

    They are happening. I am tracking them to see if there is a pattern. It seems like once a week I have a day of just exhausted collapse. This whole thing I’m doing, whatever that is… surrendering. “Free falling with God.” Not having a plan but trusting my intuition and following signs. Taking off to…

  • The Apartment

    The Apartment

    When I went to college, I was close enough to go home easily but the school suggested and therefore my mom enforced no going home until Thanksgiving. So that you gave yourself a real chance at getting adjusted, to making friends, to finding a rhythm. I’ve imposed the same sort of rule on myself at…

  • new motto, new friends, new apartment               

    new motto, new friends, new apartment               

    I said goodbye to my new London friends. We cried. It’s amazing how fast connections can form when you’re traveling like this. I feel like I’ve known them longer than four days. I’m going to London to visit and bring my mom. They will come stay in my riad and come to my wedding….to whoever,…

  • Café des Espices

    Café des Espices

    My favorite café so far in Marrakech is Café des Espices in the spice piazza (I’m sorry I will never not be Italian in naming this type of space). Rattan umbrellas three deep, stools, armchairs with red carpet pillows on the perimeter, straw hats on each table, greeter man, waiters and waitresses! scurrying about, huge…

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