Today, I woke up with a heaviness in my heart that I couldn’t quite ignore.

I dragged myself from my bed, took a few deep breaths, and made my way into the kitchen. I overheard Cam scripting animatedly in his bedroom and knocked on his door, taking yet another long breath to center myself…

Six years ago, I woke up on Keuka Lake, in a dear friend’s lakehouse, where I stayed while I was home for my mother’s funeral. I remember pausing that morning, trying to determine if everything felt heightened because of my emotions, or if I was truly perceiving and remembering things correctly.

Last night, during dinner, Cam told us about an in-depth discussion that he had with a peer at school about his disappointment in missing this year’s RIT Train Show. Apparently his classmate told him that it was amazing and Cam shared that we wanted to go but missed it. As I listened, my jaw dropped as he told me, unprompted, how he responded…

When I was a little girl, I spent countless summer afternoons lying on a cool crisp sheet underneath the curtains of the weeping willow in my grandmother‘s backyard.

A Favor was originally published on August 17th, 2021 and is an excerpt from Adventures in Camelot.

As I was walking by Cam’s bedroom this afternoon, I overheard him happily chatting away. I paused to listen to what he was saying because he had been talking non-stop and he sounded different.

Lewis Capaldi’s performance at Glastonbury simultaneously broke my heart and healed it in places that I didn’t know needed healing. Allow me to be clear, Capaldi's recently diagnosed disability taking center stage is not heartbreaking. Disability is not something to be hidden away from view for your comfort.

I see a lot of posts these days warning us to be careful of the energy that we release. While I agree, it is only to an extent because this concept is quite ablest in nature and borders on toxic positivity (good vibes only)… I think we need to take it much deeper.

Be cautious of the energy of the people you surround yourself with.

Authenticity is where it’s at.