The Filament Blog

I stared at the crisscrossing colored lines of the NYC subway system on my phone screen. It never ceases to intimidate me - not just because the system itself is complicated, but because I have to...

I started swimming my sophomore year of high school. In just a few days of being immersed in chlorinated water for several hours a day, I noticed that my skin felt tight and itchy (living in the...

I recently got coffee with a lovely man I met a few years ago while living in NYC. I got to the coffee shop before he did, occasionally glancing out the windows at the busy street outside as I...

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like my hands had been injected with gasoline. I lay awake, rubbing my hands on the cool plastic rails of my hospital bed as I tried to relieve the...

I was living in New York City during the summer of 2019 when I received an unexpected call on the phone from someone who introduced herself as the head of the policy team on Andrew Yang’s...

I bought my house in Utah sight unseen in 2021. I had been working with a real estate agent for months and we hadn’t found anything that would work for someone who uses a wheelchair. This was...

I used to live in the skies.

I spent my days flying through the air, rocketing through the great blue. The thrill of flying is something I miss - the feeling of accelerating into the heavens, pure...

Last New Year’s Eve, my sister and I found ourselves sitting across from each other in our coziest pajamas, sipping hot mugs of tea while we awaited the arrival of 2022.

We started sharing...

The minute I saw the height of the step into the shower, I knew I wouldn’t be able to get in by myself. It was an inch too high for me to be able to pop on my own, so I sat with my forehead...

When I started this blog, I promised you that I would bring my whole self, that I would really show up - presenting not just the neat, insightful parts of me, but the more complex and untidy parts,...

I woke up early one Saturday morning to the soft beeping of my Timex watch. I quickly silenced it and stayed still, listening to hear if my little brother had woken up in the bunk below. Hearing...

For most of my life I’ve been interested in what I used to call “self-improvement” or “personal development.” I believed that people were like Pokémon,...