Category Archives: How They Grow

“She Wasn’t Supposed to Survive”: Introducing How They Grow — Illegal Immigrant: STATUS UNKNOWN / BEYOND OVERSIGHT

In a world obsessed with borders and headlines, we often forget the people who disappear between them. This book is about one of them. Not a symbol. Not a debate. A girl. Her name is Edith. She was held in a compound.Isolated. Watched. Promised to a cartel leader as a reward—saved for her Quinceañera, like […]

For Anyone Who Feels Like They’re Coming Apart Quietly

What happens when you stop trying to fix yourself, and start listening to the version of you that’s quietly been there all along? That’s what How They Grow: Among Cubicles and Questions explores. It’s not a guide, and it sure as hell isn’t a success story. It’s a journal. A snapshot of one mind navigating […]

A New Beginning—and a Return

Sometimes, an idea won’t wait its turn. For a long time, I’ve carried the seed of a series—something quiet, human, reflective. Something less about saving the world and more about surviving it, especially in the quieter corners of modern life. That idea became How They Grow—a narrative series that will follow very different characters, in […]