Endpoint + Ladybugs

The ladybugs have arrived. They come every October, en masse through the slanting autumn light, their small vermilion exoskeletons plunking into the window panes, flitting through briefly opened doors, gathering at the corners of the ceilings in every room. They come like clockwork, when the days are short and the light is like amber in [...]

8 months old

Dear Sprout, I owe you a love letter big time, but somehow every time I sit down to write about you I end up staring at the page and grinning and I never get more than a couple of sentences written. Somehow I can’t seem to put into words how utterly smitten I am with [...]

Learning to fly

We make paper airplanes. A fleet of them tossed into space after dinner, twirling, looping, landing on the hardwood, on the couch cushions, on the edges of ledges and windowsills. Our hearts on our sleeves, laughter filling the living room, as the cold autumn night crowds in around at the windows and Sprout chases after [...]

Wishstuido

I have a post up here this week. Go check it out! It’s about balancing motherhood and writing… something I try for again and again every single day… How do you find balance?

October Light

There is something about October light.The way the skies are stormy and squalls blow in with snow flurries in the mountains and sleet sticking to the grass. The way V’s of geese and airplanes look like embers against the sky as the sun sets. The way every leaf becomes fire falling to the dying grass. [...]