The piece I’m currently working on has me exploring traditions and rituals. Per usual, I’ve looked into research studies around this topic because odds are, think of a topic, and someone is researching it. I found a study that sought to understand how and why people are so resistant to changing a tradition be it familial, religious, and/or cultural. In essence, the more ritualistic a tradition is, the more moral outrage will occur if a change is suggested.

I get it: it’s easy to stay in what’s familiar.

Career changes

The last time I felt like this about my career—this floundering, confusing, floating, directionless feeling of being stuck but somehow also surrounded by a vast ocean—I ended up moving across the country to San Francisco. I needed a big change.