its already hard making friends as an adult, add moving to another country to the mix with different social norms and, well, it certainly doesn’t make things easier.
Category: Blog
What Have I Been Up To
Since moving to England, I have had a number of random ideas for blog posts and videos but have posted very few of them. On the video side, it’s often about taking the time to sit down and edit. But I don’t always and then […]
We’re All Dating In The Dark
: To be clear, I’m not encouraging scamming. But… a little creativity goes a long way.
I’m Not Your Inspiration Porn
The perception of the blind is twofold: part infantilization, part terror. The former comes from, I think, not knowing how to approach a Blind in the wild.
Post Undergrad Rambles
I graduated last month. (If you don’t know the long, winding journey it took to get here, check out this video.) And though I should be excited—everyone in my life is—I find myself a little underwhelmed. Because of the “unprecedented times” that we find ourselves […]
The Clearest Path
I wrote this piece for round 1 of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge. In the contest, you are randomly assigned a genre, location and object. The story must primarily be set in the location, the object must physically appear (not just be mentioned) and, […]
On Death and Aging
This post is a little depressing, so be forewarned. I’m twenty-three, just under two months from turning twenty-four. (I haven’t even hit the quarter century mark.) So why am I writing a post on death and aging? I feel like this is usually the arena […]
How Might A Post-Corona World Effect The Blind?
When Covid news first started circulating, it was disconcerting to hear about—a disease with no cure?—but it wasn’t impacting my life, it wasn’t even in the US yet. Then cases started spreading to Europe and Washington and Chicago… but not New York. Still, it was […]
I’m Struggling to Write
… And do everything else: homework, practice my music, get in some exercise. The only thing that I haven’t been struggling with is reading. But, with the exception of a few weeks over winter break, when I barely touched a book—think I was a little […]
A Story About A Difficult Professor
As I was settling in to write a post about blind representation in the media, I found this fully-written, but never before posted piece. It’s on a difficult professor I had my junior year. She refused to be accommodating, in addition to being a bit […]