Archive - hannah, uninterrupted

A love letter for the grieving

October 7, 2023 is the day the Hamas organization in Palestine violently retaliated against 75 years of Israeli occupation, and the Israeli government…

Nov 7, 2023 •

January 2023

My parents moved out of my childhood home in 2016, but when I close my eyes I can still picture the row of three floor-to-ceiling bookshelves next to…

Jan 18, 2023 •

notes on finishing a PhD

Jan 17, 2023 •

March 2022

A story of a happy marriage

Are they as rare as we think?

Mar 22, 2022 •

March 2021

Comfort feeding (cw: disordered eating)

When I come home from work at the end of the day, my daughter squirms in my mom’s arms and leans toward me. As soon as I take her in my arms and sit on…

Mar 25, 2021 •

March 2020

Political/personal

When Elizabeth Warren announced the end of her presidential campaign, I was sitting in my office. I got a text from a friend, saying, “NPR is reporting…

Mar 5, 2020 •

February 2020

I don’t think you’d like to be called a saint, so I’ll try my hardest not to. You shirked the labels of “saint” or “prophet”, saying those were for…

Feb 18, 2020 •

January 2020

My knees bounced uncontrollably and my muscles were cramping from how hard I was flexing them to keep my body still. Anxiety makes me shake. Across the…

Jan 21, 2020 •

(Anti)intellectualism

I am, by most definitions, an intellectual. I say this less like how people say I just really like going to the gym, and more how people say I kind of…

Jan 11, 2020 •

December 2019

11 – An Honest 2019 Wrap-up

2019 was really hard. I started the year by working my ass off to finish and defend my master’s thesis, and after I finished it I was so exhausted I…

Dec 31, 2019 •

10 – On self-love

I hate Instagram posts that say things like "love your flaws" and "embrace your imperfections". Do they realize how big of a request that is? Who loves…

Dec 28, 2019 •

9 – Hope, Part 2

About a year ago, I wrote a letter titled "Hope". It was about finding faith again, about wanting a spiritual community, about falling in love with it…

Dec 10, 2019 •

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