A space for reflection, questions, and storytelling
As Faith Would Have It is my space for reflection, questions, and storytelling.
Here you’ll find writing at the crossroads of the personal and the scholarly: essays, poems, playlists, and prayers in process. I write about faith, both the name and the noun, grief, memory, becoming, and the questions that refuse to let me go.
This is where I follow what feels urgent, what feels sacred, and what we are still learning how to name.
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As Faith Would Have It
Featured Writing
Between A Concert & Goodbye
On losing my father, finding temporary solace, and letting both exist at once.
“Joy doesn’t erase the pain…it reminds you that you’re still here. Still breathing. Still capable of feeling something good, even when everything hurts."
Nails, Headwraps, and the Weight of Being the Only
How Presence Becomes Permission
“Showing up as myself has mattered. Even when it’s been difficult. It mattered because it helped someone else believe they didn’t have to code-switch their appearance to survive in the bland, buttoned-up culture of many workplaces.”