by Stacey Herrera | May 2, 2025 | Love Is.. Podcast, Sage + Grace, Sage + Grace Pod
There’s a new kind of relationship I have with the mirror lately. It’s not playful like it was in my 20s, when I’d catch my reflection and smile like we had an inside joke. It’s not quite like my 30s and 40s either. Back then, I was constantly scanning for something...
by Stacey Herrera | Apr 18, 2025 | Sage + Grace
Last night, I watched an ice cube melt. It clinked against the glass—defined, bulbous, square, with firm edges. Then slowly softening. Dissolving and disappearing into what it had always been. That’s how I see spirit. It takes form. Becomes a body. Tree. River....
by Stacey Herrera | Mar 28, 2025 | Sage + Grace
It’s April 2014. I’m staring at my face in the bathroom mirror, watching my left eye swell shut. The shingles virus had taken up residence in my optic nerve. The timing felt cruel. Just four months earlier, I had declared that June 1st would be my last day at my...
by Stacey Herrera | Mar 14, 2025 | Sage + Grace
There’s a particular kind of ache in standing in the doorway between two rooms. You’re neither here nor there. The ground beneath you feels unsteady, like it might give way if you stay too long. When it comes to relationships, this in-between place is its own kind of...
by Stacey Herrera | Feb 28, 2025 | Sage + Grace
Twenty years ago, I watched a friend rewrite the history of her relationship. We were tucked in a cozy corner, at Paco’s Tacos. With each dip of her chip, her former boyfriend morphed —from the man she once called “The one” to someone who “Wasn’t sh*t.” I nodded...
by Stacey Herrera | Feb 14, 2025 | Sage + Grace
The orgasms were amazing —literally, the best sex I’d ever had. But the emotional depth left something to be desired. To be clear, this wasn’t a fleeting affair. We were lovers for nearly two decades, tangled up in one another for most of my adult life. He...
