On Planting Pansies

What a weird Spring, friends.
This weird hasn’t been totally unfamiliar to me, though. This season has felt an awful lot like a season four years ago. It’s so like the weeks and months leading up to the first day of Spring, when we watched my Dad’s life on earth end. Living in palliative care […]

On Lockdown

In the last weeks of Kindergarten, our sweet girl came home from school talking about a different kind of “fire drill” they’d had at school. I was confused about what it was, as she tried to explain it. Turns out, it wasn’t a fire drill at all.

Their school had to do a lockdown drill. […]

On Self Care

Sitting here with peeling nails and big, dark circles under my eyes because FLU SEASON HIT OUR HOUSE, you might look at me and think, “you need a little self-care, girlfriend,” but I promise, I’m working on it. I’ve been working on it for about 5 years, actually. #slowlearner

It started this way: shortly after […]

On Blue Monday

It’s Blue Monday. The “experts” say that a day like today is when all things crash together – bills coming in, weather being gray, and spring still being two months out. And to be honest, I’ve got a general annual January pattern: come off the Christmas/New Year’s high – and then wonder what I’m […]