Family is not always simple, and belonging is not always inherited.
This collection holds siblings, auntyhood, co-parenting, divorce, domestic abuse, chosen family, and the tangled ways people can belong to us even when the relationship itself changes shape.
Where We Belong
Latest from Family & Belonging
Ten Years
A decade cannot be reduced to courtrooms and screenshots; it also held grocery lists, dreams, inside jokes, grief, and a life once built together.
To My Sister, Sierra
A letter to a sister about distance, loyalty, hurt, and the complicated love that survived the middle of a family crisis.
The First Ambulance
An earliest memory begins not with birthday cake or summer grass, but with sirens, fear, and a family already learning how quickly safety can disappear.
Pieces of Chalk
A Grade 1 note about pieces of chalk becomes a record of a child trying to describe fear with the limited vocabulary school had given him.
Punching Bag
She was never the enemy—only the nearest place someone else could throw the pain they refused to carry themselves.
Before We Knew
Before the crisis had a name, two people were already learning how quickly ordinary conversations can turn into sirens.
Hi
Yesterday held hatred; today begins with a casual hello, but memory refuses to pretend the words in between never happened.
The Words That Didn’t Fit
Someone throws every ugly label they can find, only to discover none of them are heavy enough to become her name.
Nothing
One question, one word, and one truth that arrives years too late: she had done nothing to deserve it.
I’m Sorry for the Weight I Handed You
An apology for the fear, information, and impossible weight handed to a sister during a crisis neither woman knew how to carry.
