The Journal
Essays & field notes.
Long-form thinking on family law, founding technology for women, sobriety, motherhood, and what it actually takes to wake up to your own life.
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April 15, 2026 · Lifestyle · Essays
A life that fits.
Notes on building a life — the rituals, the rooms, the small choices — that actually fits the woman you’ve become.
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April 1, 2026 · The Awake Woman · Essays
Wake up to your own life.
The phrase that started The Awake Woman, and why I think it's the only conversation that matters right now.
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March 1, 2026 · The Awake Woman · Motherhood · Essays
Madrid, and the practice of freedom.
In 2023 I packed two daughters and a life into a city where I knew almost no one. Freedom, it turns out, is not a feeling.
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February 22, 2026 · Sobriety · Essays
Sober since June 2004.
Reinvention is not a moment. It's the discipline of refusing to keep being the person a previous life required.
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