The writing

Stories

Essays on presence, family, and the life we’re paying attention to.

Living with a Trader

In 1996, I met this guy — and married the risk. Twenty years of learning to love uncertainty, from the other side of a trader's desk.

Where our story slowed down — and the little Hill Country town we love to send you to.

Necker Island, March 2014.

My family's stories come wrapped in tamales — four generations, one kitchen, and the secrets folded into masa and cornhusk.

Necker Island, April 8, 2016 While on a entrepreneurial retreat with my husband and three children, I waited

Yesterday, we celebrated my grandma's 91st birthday. We call grandma Wella. Wella is a pistol. She

Two years ago, I spent a week at a writer's conference in Italy, just outside of