What Is Your Superpower?
After an immeasurably important person in my life died unexpectedly, it took about three and half years before I began to gradually refer to my grief in the past tense. Even typing that sentence gives...
View ArticleGratitude: April 2015
Many days I list at least one (sometimes up to six) distinct thing(s) for which I’m grateful. The list is archived monthly. Here’s April 2015. I’m grateful for the story my new seamstress began telling...
View ArticleGratitude: May 2015
Many days I list at least one (sometimes up to six) distinct thing(s) for which I’m grateful. The list is archived monthly. Here’s May 2015. I’m grateful for parents who are still alive and...
View ArticleRepost: Regrets of a Teenage Philosopher Turned Underachiever
Originally posted October 20th, 2012 The weekend I turned 43, I practiced my Parisian Rs for so long, I wore my throat ragged. I sat tall in my chair at the community college and learned about why the...
View ArticleNo Words, Yet
One month ago today, my long time partner and I stood before our family and a few of our friends and held hands. We spoke traditional vows. We cried and laughed and hugged and slid rings onto...
View ArticleGratitude: Summer 2015
Many days I list at least one (sometimes up to six) distinct thing(s) for which I’m grateful. The list is usually archived monthly; although, July was our wedding month, so things were unusually busy....
View ArticleReasons to Love Pinterest (or the Virtues of Denial)
We have a cousin who lives in Pakistan and was awakened early today by the sound of her neighbor’s sacrificial goat crying. I was scrolling Facebook late last night when I encountered her concise and...
View ArticleGratitude: September 2015
Many days I list at least one (sometimes up to six) distinct thing(s) for which I’m grateful. The list is archived monthly. Here’s September 2015. I’m grateful for my husband’s hands. His intelligence...
View ArticleGratitude: Fall 2015
From August 2011 through much of 2015, most days I listed at least one (sometimes up to six) distinct thing(s) for which I was (and am) grateful. The lists are all archived here. Always, there is...
View ArticleIt Was What It Was and That Was Pretty Good
When I was eight or nine, my dad got a phone call from his doctor with the news that he was dying of cancer. My parents reacted by booking a family trip to Disney World (probably on a credit card)....
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