Almost: 11 days left

Today it rained all day. I have 60 rough pages; double spaced. I have the vaguest ideas of what I want the visuals to be. I’m far from where I need to be. And yet, I am so close. The amount that I have to finish terrifies me. It feels impossible, insurmountable, enormous. My body [...]

A parenthesis in time:

All week I’ve been wanting to tell you About how I slipped away last Friday night with T and my beautiful friend Hilary. We went North on a road marked with farm houses and fields, the land as flat as a tucked sheet. We saw snow geese, hundreds of them, and remarked about the solitary [...]

Small rituals :: Holding steady

Toast with honey + almonds, and a cappuccino for the road. Kissing my boys before we part ways for the day (all three of them.) Stopping in a parking lot by the lake on the way to work to watch the gulls, just for five minutes, and to breathe. Having lunch with good friends often. [...]

Making your mark

The days are numbered until I’m finished with graduate school, and in the woods the days are numbered too before everything bursts forth wildly with green. I haven’t shared much about my thesis-writing process here, mostly because my hours are too full, and the days not long enough. My thesis is called: Making Your Mark: [...]

Slowly, softly, the new year arrived here:

I’ve been wanting so very much to show up here and tell you things, but with the new year came a fever—the kind I remember having as a little girl, and all I was able to do was curl under thick down covers and sleep. It’s not something I make time for readily: resting deeply, [...]