Almost 40, single, and childless, navigating faith, purpose, and identity while embracing uncertainty and the ongoing journey of figuring life out.

It’s really easy to stay ignorant to the realities of this world because they aren’t your reality, until they are. I’ll admit, for a while I was a bit of a fashion snob, particularly when it came to fast fashion and the choices on people’s clothing “grocery lists.” Retailers like Shein, PLT, and the rest alike quite frankly leave a taste in my mouth that is more than unpleasant. The cheapness of it irritated me because of what it represented: poor quality that encourages overconsumption,...

Across the room at the UAL Speaking from Margins exhibition, the space was alive with the quiet hum of emerging ideas, installations, garments, fragments of stories stitched into fabric and form. But among them, something held the eye a little longer. Vibrant wax prints, sun-washed hues, silhouettes that hinted at summer but carried something deeper beneath the surface. Before you read the name, before you knew the story, the visuals had already begun speaking. That moment was an introduction...