Welcome to The Edit—a collection of personal essays, observations, and photography about life as it is: beautiful, complicated, funny, occasionally messy, and always changing.

Each entry is an Edit, a closer look at something worth noticing. Friendship and family. Travel and home. Growing older and knowing ourselves better. The things we carry, the things we let go, and the small pleasures that make an ordinary day feel like something more.

Some Edits ask questions. Some tell stories. Others simply stop long enough to notice something I don't want to forget.

These stories may begin with me, but so much of what we feel, question, carry, and celebrate is shared. I hope you'll find something here that speaks to you, too.

THE EDIT

Elizabeth Quon 9/30/26 Elizabeth Quon 9/30/26

Edit 60: On Adult Friendships and Not Keeping Score

When a friendship begins to feel more like competition than community, what do you do? My controversial take: let them win.

Elizabeth Quon 6/2/26 Elizabeth Quon 6/2/26

Edit 45:On Adult Friendships: The Friend Within

There's a question I keep returning to, one that disappears for a while before finding its way back. Am I as good a friend to myself as I am to the people I love? It turns out knowing yourself and befriending yourself are two very different things.