API Writer

I’m sitting here at my desk, looking at a small stack of notebooks that have followed me through three different apartments and at least five different jobs. Some of them are battered, with tea stains on the covers and spines that groan when I open them. Others are almost pristine, save for a few pages … Read more

I was sitting at my kitchen table the other day, staring at a lukewarm cup of coffee and a laptop screen that seemed to be mocking me. I had one task. One. I needed to write a simple update for a project I’ve been working on for weeks. But instead of typing, I found myself … Read more

I woke up this morning to the smell of burnt toast and the realization that my dining room table hasn’t actually seen a dinner plate in three months. Instead, it’s covered in scraps of leather, heavy-duty thread, and a stack of shipping labels that I really should have organized yesterday. This wasn’t exactly the “CEO … Read more

I spent about three weeks last year trying to be a person who drinks green juice at 6:00 AM while watching the sunrise. I’d seen the videos, read the books, and bought into the idea that if I could just nail the morning, the rest of my life would fall into place like some sort … Read more

I’m sitting here at my kitchen table, looking at a coffee cup that’s gone cold for the second time this morning. There’s a half-written paragraph staring back at me, and honestly, the cursor is blinking with a kind of rhythmic judgment that’s starting to get under my skin. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? That … Read more

I’ve been sitting here for the better part of an hour, watching the steam curl off a mug of coffee that I’ve long since forgotten to actually drink. It’s one of those mornings where the sun is hitting the floorboards at just the right angle, showing every speck of dust and every scratch from the … Read more

I was sitting at my kitchen table the other morning, just staring at a half-eaten piece of toast. The sun was hitting the crumbs in a way that should have been peaceful, I guess, but all I could feel was this strange, low-level buzzing in my chest. It wasn’t caffeine. It was that familiar, frantic … Read more

I remember standing in the middle of a big-box garden center about four years ago, staring at a wall of seed packets like they were some kind of ancient, indecipherable code. I had this vision in my head. I’d be wearing a wide-brimmed hat, carrying a wicker basket overflowing with perfectly round tomatoes and crisp … Read more

I’m sitting at my kitchen table right now, staring at a ceramic bowl that is, for lack of a better word, hideous. It’s lumpy. The glaze is a muddy shade of green that was supposed to be “forest mist” but looks more like “forgotten spinach.” One side is significantly thicker than the other, giving it … Read more

I caught myself staring at a blank screen for nearly twenty minutes this morning. Not because I didn’t know what to do, but because I was paralyzed by the sheer volume of things I could be doing. I had fourteen tabs open, my phone was vibrating with a notification about a sale I didn’t care … Read more