This is hard – this isolation and fear and sickness and death and combination of forced togetherness and forced separateness. I think that is the phrase I’ve seen and heard people use the most to…
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Gifts Not Fully Given
Ash Wednesday was this week. I did not attend any services. And I didn’t fast. I am not exactly Catholic anymore. But I’m not exactly not either. Many of my core values are those that…
Fun is Just Okay
Do you like to have fun? I know that sounds like the beginning of a terrible commercial, but I am sincerely asking the question. (Feel free to answer in the comments!) I’ve been thinking about…
When Words are Hard to Write
Wise people say that it is best not to put writing about difficult times out in the world while you are still living them. Write, yes, but give the words room to breathe before sharing….
A Welcome Winter Shift
I went to Target earlier this week and I felt a little surge of happiness when I saw that the pink and red Valentine’s Day displays were up. This is weird because I don’t give…
The Comfort of Old Friends
Yesterday a friend texted me a picture of boxed macaroni and cheese and I started crying. “I’ll never be able to eat this again and not think of you,” she wrote. I started graduate school…
Summer Slipping By
I’ve been feeling a bit blue the last couple days and I’m struggling to put my finger on why, but I think it is this: a handful of things are just not as I wish…
What Are Your Songs?
There is a song from Norah Jones’s album Come Away With Me called “Nightingale” that I have loved since the first time I heard it, and this surprises me a bit. It’s a very pretty…
First Post
I’ve wanted to start this blog for several years. I’ve thought daily about things I would like to write, but I haven’t done it, in part because I was completely intimidated by the first post….