What is the “ish?” It’s the tangible grace in between two breaths. The moments in between arriving when you’re sure you’re falling apart and going on stage for the performance of a lifetime. It is knowing you’re a mess and still having friends who show up and sit on your couch. It’s homemade chicken pot pie that looks amazing and still causes your smoke alarm to go off because it’s spilling over into the oven. It’s the moment when you lose a friend and another answers their phone. It’s knowing you’ve really screwed it up while simultaneously having a magical night in the city…with the best $1 oysters. It’s the right now and the not yet. And it’s all grace. 

For so much of my life, I tried to have it all together. I prided myself in BECOMING. Becoming the perfect version of whatever the people in front of me needed me to be. But--the problem was, I started to get tired. So so tired. The stories I share here are entirely true. They aren’t in order and most of them are a little bit messy. Let’s be real…some of them are a lot a bit messy. They’re moments of ish and they’re moments of grace. 

I’m betting if you’re honest, you have moments like mine too. I hope that by sitting with me in these moments, you start to see the magic in yours too. Life truly is beautiful and I think we see it the most clearly in the ish. 

The --Ish: The Life I've found in between what's happened, the right now, and the not yet. The life in between the breaths...in those moments when I'm often running late.