Margins
A curated record of books shaping my writing and thinking—brief reflections at the intersection of psychology, place, memory, and narrative.
The Beauty in Breaking — Michele Harper
A portrait of clinical care that makes room for both precision and fracture—where authority doesn’t require emotional distance.
Singular Intimacies
A close look at the emotional texture of medical training—where clinical distance and human connection are constantly negotiated.
What Doctors Feel
An argument for making space for physicians’ inner lives within the structure of medicine.
Bluebird, Bluebird — Attica Locke
Set in East Texas, not far from where I’m from, a novel that understands the weight of place—how history, race, and silence shape what can be said and what must be carried.
Black Is the Body — Emily Bernard
Essays that move through race, intimacy, and belonging with restraint—attending to the ways the body carries both encounter and memory.
Listening
On Repeat
Stunning—Resilience Stories.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s — Truman Capote
Another Southern writer, holding resilience alongside heartbreak—where lightness and longing exist in the same breath.
