Stories, observations, and honest conversations about how people love.
This is where the written work lives, exploring love, friendship, dating, marriage, attraction, communication, heartbreak, repair, emotional availability, family, and the patterns that shape how we find one another, misunderstand one another, and learn to relate more honestly.
Some pieces are funny.
Some are tender.
Some may quietly point out the thing you were hoping nobody noticed.
All of them are written to be read slowly, considered honestly, and shared when the words remind you of someone, or of yourself.
Start Wherever You Are
There is no required order.
Begin with the latest column, follow a topic that catches your attention, or return to a piece that stayed with you.
You may find:
The Rom-Com: Love, Love, Love
Serialized stories about love, survival, attraction, friendship, timing, and the inconvenient work of becoming the main character in your own life.
How We Relate
Writing about communication, emotional availability, accountability, conflict, intimacy, relational patterns, and the ways we protect ourselves from the very connection we say we want.
Love, Partnership & Marriage
Reflections on commitment, companionship, friendship, desire, family, and what it means to build a relationship instead of merely having one.
Romance & Sexuality
Attraction, desire, chemistry, intimacy, embodiment, sexual communication, and the difference between being desired and being deeply known.
Self, Life & Becoming
Self-love, identity, healing, growth, purpose, joy, reinvention, learning to live more authentically.
Podcast: The Heart & Soul Chronicles
For podcast episodes and companion posts connected to the podcast.
Family & Friendship
Parenting, blended families, friendship, extended family, children, community, chosen family.
A Note Before You Read
No shouting.
No gender wars.
No ten-second solutions to twenty-year patterns.
Just good stories, meaningful conversation, useful insight, and room for people to be complicated without being excused from responsibility.
Read what finds you.
Take what is useful.
Leave room to return.
Take a seat. The column is open.