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Meevaluation
The last couple of days were for holding my breath, playing the undercover researcher to my own life, and sometimes just hiding under the blankets for an hour or, um… four. Some days are just this way,...
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Grace as: Three-Week Smiles
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…” ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of...
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Diagramming Pessimism
The other day at breakfast, Dan said something characteristically Dan-y, like “What great weather!” and I said something characteristically me-y, like “There’s probably a tornado hiding behind that...
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Fossilized
[Part 1 of this story is here.] By Tuesday evening last week, I’d spent the first 30 hours of my long-desired writing retreat in a headlock with myself, and I was “cotta” as we say in Italian. Cooked....
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Cherry Tree Creed
I’ve hinted on here before about my rather extreme religious upbringing, but I’m hesitant to say much more about it. One part of me goes a little giddy at Anne Lamott’s quote, “If my family didn’t want...
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Part III (Preface here, Part I here, Part II here) As I reached my teenage years and my privacy began to be invaded in increasingly traumatic ways, I reached out to friends I had met through our...
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Despair and Contrast
I’ve been doing a bit of blog spring summer cleaning over the last few days—super-gluing links, spit-shining categories, that sort of thing—and I found myself reading back over the first two years’...
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