April 19, 2026

drowning

I'm literally so stressed because I'm trying to juggle 20 things at once and I feel like I'm failing at all of them but I just know. I KNOW it will pay off in a year.

April 15, 2026

crazy week

I've been slacking on writing because I have been so busy with life. But life is beautiful and I'm so happy about the state of my affairs.

April 7, 2026

Republican In Name Only

Growing up with Democrats for parents, I rebelled and joined The Young Republicans Club in high school and joked that my first love was free market capitalism. I went into politics and studied it voraciously, became a Republican. But I was never truly a Republican.

April 4, 2026

cortisol spike

I think I really fucked up with this guy I was talking to because I got too drunk last night and fell through on meeting up with him. It's too bad because I thought we had great chemistry.

April 1, 2026

blast from the past

Why was I always half naked?

March 30, 2026

falling in love is hard

I broke things off with a guy that seemed perfect on paper. I cried at a philanthropy panel in Chicago for wrongful convicts. I deleted my Raya. I had dollar bills stuffed into my walking boot at the strip club at precisely 4 in the morning.

March 29, 2026

2016 v 2026

March 28, 2026

Emil Jay Freireich

I keep circling back to this idea that courage isn't innate. That it's not some fixed trait you either inherit or don't.

March 24, 2026

classics

Discovering old music again and falling in love with it all over through watching biopics >>>

March 13, 2026

almost broke my three year celibacy and my leg at the same time

The title pretty much sums it up neatly. For the past few years I have been focusing on personal growth and family without carving out much time for dating...

March 11, 2026

private credit, publicly stressed

Private credit is basically the practice of loaning money outside the traditional centralized banking system. Companies with low credit rating or a plethora of other risks will get turned down by banks so naturally they turn to private credit firms...

March 11, 2026

do frameworks fit in this latest modern age world? it has to, right?

Lately I've been trying to sort through a nagging frustration I keep running into when thinking about American foreign policy...

March 11, 2026

decompression time

I pride myself on having a very uncomplicated life. It works that way most of the time, but returning to the US has not been without its challenges...

March 10, 2026

who can relate

There is something about Eli's writing that makes me feel so deeply understood...

March 7, 2026

geopolitical anxiety

I'm tired of wars.

March 3, 2026

on starting over

I moved back to the US a few weeks ago after living abroad for a while...