// Things I want to remember

So busy this week, back to school, back to being in a hundred places at once. Still, it’s summer and I’m trying to be in it. At the dinner table watching our boys run out across the grass holding hands to look for sticks for roasting marshmallows, T says: “Oh love, I want this to [...]

A full heart

Feeling an immense sadness tonight at the fact that my mother has zero interest in being in my life on any terms but her own strange, bitter, peculiar ones. Letting that relationship go for now. Aching nonetheless. +++ Feeling immensely grateful for my incredible friends who have become my family over the years, and for [...]

making it so

All weekend I’ve thought about your answers; pondered them, and wondered at their incredible honesty and longing. There is such enormous power in putting into words the things you long for. I believe this with every single cell in my being. Things become, align, respond. Even when what we ask for is far grater than [...]

Signs of life

Riding 33.2 miles per hour on a back country road does something for your soul. It makes you grin, for one. It makes your hair, pulled back in messy braids yank like kite strings in the wind. Being that close to the pavement you see things differently. No, you feel them. The fragrance from every [...]

These are things that happen

These are things that happen when I circle back into this present that is mine: sunburn on unaccustomed cheeks; blisters on my palms after an afternoon in leather gloves raking lawn debris; the unexpected delirium of forsythia and daffodils; bumblebees; wet marks on my knees from kneeling to look among the clover. I cannot help [...]