personal growth | By Serafina

A Memory from a Certain Register

It was a Saturday in the winter of 2008/2009, and I had just finished taking one of two SAT II subject tests. What the subject was for...

Dec 5, 20226 min read

What they were: Birkenstocks, iPhones, The North Face fleeces, Abercrombie shirts and jeans. Sleek and shiny long hair, mostly natural...

Aug 20, 202214 min read

Many people do not lend themselves to be knowable. They hide, while real love, when it presents itself, becomes spent away on a transient...

Aug 5, 20222 min read

Note: Numbers in parentheses correspond to endnotes. I have been transitioning from a life lived with rampant dissociation to a life of...

Apr 26, 20229 min read

I’m back home texting with someone that Erik and I had just met at the climbing gym in the morning that I liked. Originally from Spain, L...

Feb 5, 202219 min read

Friday was my last day of work at the Action Lab for Social Justice at Columbia School of Social Work. After discussion with leadership,...

Feb 1, 20218 min read

For years, I’ve relived a scene from the TV show Gilmore Girls. The message from this scene even became a precept under which I lived my...

Jan 6, 20214 min read

A reflection / a confession / a manifesto / a blog post for the English-speaking audience 어느 새에 나는 이것을 깨달았다.* It is possible to live a...

Dec 30, 202011 min read