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Keeping this week short as I try to catch my breath. I’m curious to know: how is Common Discourse treating you? Is it something you look forward to? Is…

Feb 23, 2021

If you have a recurring project that publishes at the same time & day every week, you know what I mean when I talk about the scrambling moments before…

Mar 8

I’ve been thinking about how often we’re faced with stretching the truth for more visibility online. I would say this thought is specifically for…

Feb 22

Mackenzie and I are headed to Mexico City for the first time tomorrow. If Duolingo doesn’t make me a fluid Spanish speaker by the time I land I’m firing…

Feb 8

Happy Tuesday! Mexico City was special. The perfect merger of nature and urban sprawl filled with roaming dogs, sidewalk cafes, and intentional…

Feb 15

There seems to be a common trajectory that many of us go through in our 20s before figuring life out, where we just show up to stuff because a stranger…

Feb 1

We’ve started using are.na as a place to archive more specific sections of this project in the event that you find yourself needing to track back and…

Mar 1

Rachel Nguyen is the mind behind that’s chic, a fashion blog created in 2007 that has slowly become a catch-all for everything happening in Rachel’s…

Apr 8

It feels like I only write about conversations that happen over dinner, but the truth of it is, the table is where it all happens. Being sucked into…

Apr 27

The last few weeks have felt like the coming days of a long-awaited trip that has been planned for over a year. Sometimes the planning, outfit…

Apr 6, 2021

Mackenzie and I grabbed dinner with a friend last night that we both knew from Chicago and haven’t had a real conversation with since we were both…

Jan 18

2.5 years ago Mackenzie, Abe and I were sitting in Woodcat every day from the time it opened to when it closed trying to figure out how to get people to…

Mar 25

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