The Price of Shelter: What Survival Teaches Us About Systems
There’s a kind of stillness that comes when you’ve run out of plans. It’s not peace. It’s a forced quiet, like when the body shuts down just enough to keep you breathing. In that silence, you begin to see how a system really works—not from the diagrams or the policies, but from the vantage point of the people it’s supposed to help.
The Woman at Midnight: Rage as Data in a Collapsed System
Why can’t I do this?
The Poverty Line
A meditation on the thin line between having a home and losing one, and how the light still falls evenly, even when the world doesn’t.
The Physics of Holding Together: Lessons from a Women’s Shelter
The shelter was small—four rooms, four families, four worlds pressed against one another. A quiet choreography of women and children moving through shared air, each orbiting the others, each carrying a different kind of weight.
The Rooms That Rebuilt Me
Then one afternoon, rifling through a stack of papers I wasn’t supposed to see, I found some official looking paperwork and—
The Invisible Work of Collapse: Is Your Endurance Just Burnout in Disguise?
Pain is feedback—the body’s alarm system for hidden stress. When we normalize that pain (“everyone’s exhausted,” “that’s just the culture”), we mute the signal.
After the Implosion: How I Built a Life That Stands
Seven years ago, my life effectively ended.
Steel Logic: How Prefab Teaches Us to Design Better Systems
Prefab LGS isn’t just a building system—it’s a structural metaphor for systems that are light, strong, repeatable, and resilient.
Scratching - the Scar Skin
You work the day shift. You work the night shift. You don’t sleep. You sleep too much. You eat. You don’t. It doesn’t matter. You keep scratching for life, hoping like hell the light returns.
