How to Break into Your Own Apartment
It was well after midnight. My father and I sat on the stoop outside my new apartment on Thompson Street eating burgers in the late August heat, unable to get in. A cockroach scuttled beneath my feet and up the small half-wall to where my fries lay…see more.
Waiting for Normal: Trying to Find Meaning in a World Put on Hold
Waiting for Normal was written for a long form reporting class as part of my masters program at UT. I began the class intending to write about a small church in Wells, TX, that has been at the center of several scandals in recent years. As it did for the plans of many others, the pandemic brought that work to a standstill. I instead wrote this — a personal narrative about the struggles to find some semblance meaning and normal in the early days of the pandemic. Read it here.