pack light

This collection of poems, prose, and untold stories started as a writing ritual. Gentle passage into the past in an effort to release untold truths manifesting as creative blocks. It turned into an exploration through the author's first 18 years. Pieces of the remembering, the loving, the praying, the questioning, the surviving, the hurting, the healing...packed into these pages and placed here in your hands.

"I wish I could've read this in college. I wish I had this to read in my twenties and early thirties when I was first starting to heal. you are the new gift." - a creative genius of a friend who first inspired me to write

"Sh*t, Tiffany. You are such a beautiful and heartbreaking and profound and brave and brutal and compassionate writer. I'm going to go wipe off my snotty nose from all the crying you made me do." - a fantastic editor and fellow crier

"This is a lovely, thrilling - and I mean that in the best sense of the word, you gave us everything, Tiffany - kind and giving piece of work. I hope you live for three hundred years, too." - my first director turned friend whom i always want to impress

"Well damn. You put yo foot in that, Tiff!" - favorite emotionally-unavailable ex

"She weaves together themes of self-discovery, love, loss, and the magic of everyday life, guiding the reader on a journey that is both personal and universal. a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and  the world around them." - review from a robot, whom i fed this book, hoping it leaves an imprint