Michelle Elisabeth Varghese

Personal essays on creativity, reinvention, and developing my writing craft.

Words on books, writing, tech, and midlife fitness. Shipped from the great state of Michigan.

Jordan Grumet talks purpose, career, and enough

a newsletter for creatives who look successful but feel unfulfilled

Vulnerable reflections on travel, food, and work from a former Silicon Valley engineer pursuing a creative career. Escape and reflect with a wanderer.

Unexpected takes on the modern world of work. Paul explores our obsession with work and the default path of success and tries to imagine new possibilities for how we can conceive of life, work & what matters.

Honest stories about the real Indian food billions of us eat every day. No radioactive orange butter chicken here.

Tangent is a small Internet detour meant to bring insight, joy, and help you find the beauty/interesting in the mundane.

Notes on noticing life’s ordinary moments.

Connect with your inner child through art, movement and writing.

Suspended Fictions

Nature, Creativity, and The Human Condition

Let's be friends (but only if you subscribe <3)

Exploring weird connections between unrelated topics. Movies, long-term traveling, absurdity.

Sharing stories about courage and compassion that guide us to be ourselves

This is the space where I write about the things I'm contemplating. Sometimes that's relationships, sometimes that's jiu-jitsu, sometimes that's building systems and organization.