Personal essays, memoir, fiction, photography, and embodied self-portraiture exploring identity, memory, and the stories we carry, including Notes from the Grooming Table. Click to read Cassie Soma St...

On money, survival, femininity, and wanting more out of life.

Personal essays, memoir, fiction, photography, and embodied self-portraiture exploring identity, memory, and the stories we carry, including Notes from the Grooming Table. Click to read Cassie Soma St...

It Means Something Here

Apparently, I Get the Sweet Side

Day 431

Whiskey 137

A Yellow Bow and a Duck for Blossom

A Short Day That Wasn’t Planned

Two Poodles and a Question

A familiar glass. A new question at the bottom.

More Than a Proper Groom

By Day 424, the aliens had accumulated enough field notes about humans that certain patterns were beginning to emerge.

Rory’s Back, a.k.a. My Coffee Thief

The Ones Who Show Up

Chapter Four: One Year Away

What I needed to hear about being transgender, in case you need to hear it too

Cassie Soma Studio has gradually become a home for many different parts of my creative life: personal essays, fiction, photography, stories from the grooming table, and work that does not always fit n...

A Tuesday That Felt Like Monday

Chapter Three: The Wrong Question

What We Carry Quietly

One last laugh before Monday.

The Days That Ask Too Much

Ants in His Pants and a Mullet

Chapter Two: Beyond the Pavement

Love Bugs

As long as I can remember, I’ve always thought, maybe this is it… maybe these are my people.

The things we carry, and the kindness that finds us.