Ōstium: an entrance, a mouth, a door, a cavity, an opening. About Ōstium : These Substack letters chronicle the complications of infertility and my struggle to start a family. I do my best to write these as close to real time as possible (within 3-6 months of the events happening (writing this in 2024 -2026)), so you get a true, in-the-moment look at the IVF process for me and the behind-the-scenes moments of a topic often skirted (or shunned/shamed) in modern society. Talkin

Whenever a new year, new month or even a new day begins, I always find myself asking, What's next? The promise of what might come...

I know it probably seems cliché to write about endings and beginnings as we near the end of another year, but still, I wanted to ruminate...

This past month, I have been thinking a lot about obsessions and their relationship to creative writing (and me)...

I thought it might be fun to jump-start writing these musings again with a little capture of what I have been working on lately...

[a note on persistence when putting your creative work into the public eye]

i thought it might be nice to include a piece of my writing in here, not just my speculative or academic thinking-writing, but just...

a deep dive into literary/creative writing craft elements and how they can be used.

[prologue: there is a fabric that is torn when we break from interior to exterior, when we move from inside to out. but that tearing is...