Happy New Year, friends—nearly a month late, I know. Time is always a funny thing, but January especially seems to move at both a snail's pace and lightning speed. The holidays feel like they were over months ago now, yet, if I wasn't keeping up with the calendar, I might guess it was only just the ...
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, friends! The holidays always tend to sneak up on me, but this year they did more than ever. Autumn was a blur. I've been sick off and on since August and hardly remember what it feels like to breathe, sleep, or function normally. Most of my free time this season has been spent ...
Checking In
Hello, friends. It feels so strange to be making my way back to this space after the bombshell I reentered it with in August. I never in a million years would have imagined I could hold myself together enough to string together words that made any kind of sense whatsoever about one of my parents so ...
Life as of Late
It feels more than a little strange to me to be delving back into blogging in the midst of everything happening in our world right now. Putting words together has been a struggle in itself for me these past several weeks, but throwing them out into the universe in a time when we're all constantly ...
On Finding Calm in the Midst of an Emotional Storm
A week ago today, I was sat upon a step stool in the flickering fluorescent light of our recently torn-apart-for-renovations kitchen, while a storm raged outside. Water was leaking in from all sides of our basement foundation, and there was a small but steady stream dripping into our bedroom from a ...
To London, With Love
My heart is breaking today over the news from London. The attack on several innocent civilians and bystanders in beloved Westminster – an area of the city where I’ve now spent many hours of my life, the first place I rush to upon arriving in the bustling metropolis, the borough in which I feel ...