I really wasn’t planning to start posting until I had everything all figured out. The book, my life. But I also have never, not once, felt fully ready to do the big things, and the best outcome has always come if and when I am prepared to leap (and then actually leapt instead of thinking, constantly, about leaping).

I have recently discovered I’m fairly terrible at “about me” sections so, if you’re here, welcome! I shall spare you the about me, but you can find one on the home page! I’m not yet sure what this will be but I’ve named it Homing Signals because I love the idea of that which calls us home and how that concept can expand to include new places, people, so that we are called home in a myriad unique ways. So that when we get on the plane, and when we touch down, we are going toward something, always.

I hope to use this platform to update (not too often or too lengthily, I promise), stretch the writing muscles in a less curated way, and explore the intersection of places, of belonging, of not-belonging.

If you’re reading the e-mail version of this right now, you were probably subscribed to Which Way to Rome, my previous city blog. I’d be thrilled if you joined me for Homing Signals, where we’ll also talk about Rome, because she runs through my bloodstream (and is a main character in The Web of Time, coming out in May, but more on that later). But the plan right now is not for this to be a city blog or a how-to on Rome, and we’ll talk about lots of other things so, if you’d rather not get Homing Signals in your inbox, the “unsubscribe” button is at the bottom of the e-mail you’re reading. Thank you for being there for the Young In Rome/Which Way to Rome adventure!

For those of you here for this new journey (I’m re-watching Star Trek: Enterprise so it’s taking all of my self-restraint not to say “journey to unexplored systems” or something similarly starry), please know I’m a deep believer that moving forward is collective and I am excited to chat with you about all the things. My hope for 2025 is that it will globally be a year of connecting, of community, of speaking up, of hearing our own voices, of making room for the voices of others, of doing things we want to do even when we’re not 100% sure we’re ready to.

Buon Anno a tutti, from Roma!