A Toast to You (and an avocado toast for me)
Friends for a Perfect Time and Season Relationships are really important to me. I believe our connections with those around us to be one of the great reasons for our existence. We are here to be here for each other--to celebrate, to mourn, to grow, to sit, to think, to explore with each other. I feel very blessed in my friendships from the past twenty seven years. This is not an inclusive list of everyone who has influenced me for good (which would be a short novel), but thank you for sharing a space with me now. And so, here is a toast to my friends, past and present. To Bailey, one of my first friends, who taught me that stories should always have a transformative element (usually in the form of a servant girl turning into a princess). To Eshani and Kaylah, who were my best friends at a new elementary school and sure knew how to laugh. To Melody and Susanna, my neighbors who taught me the joys of riding razor scooters, writing movie scripts, playing Pokemon, and