A lot of people live in a perpetual state of limbo, in the grayed-out, dulled-out, parched-dry zone that happens when we can’t (or won’t) make a decision. Maybe someday I’ll fit back into this.    Maybe I’ll look back at these notes and turn them into a proposal.  Maybe I’ll have a better sense of […]

Let’s travel back in time for a moment. After my daughter was born, I was running on no sleep, trying to manage a household, care for my sweet baby, and wrangle a career that often required 14-hour childcare stints with only a few hours of notice. I’d been a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants girl before that, but holy […]

Declaring Dominion over the Holidays: A Manifesto Done is better than perfect. Let it feel as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. Better cheerios happily poured than a roast goose served with resentment. It’s going to be messy. Let it be messy. You can contain all of it. You don’t have […]

I don’t understand this life sometimes. I’m buying candy canes for my little ones, while babies die and starve in Aleppo. I’m scrutinizing wrapping paper options, while politicians pretend that climate change is a myth. I’m noticing with chagrin that my jeans are getting tight, while the local food bank in town is running out […]

A couple of weeks ago I got a note from a reader. It was one of the kindest, most thoughtful notes I’d ever received…but she was writing to tell me why she was unsubscribing from my email list. She said she loved hearing my stories each week, but she just couldn’t stand my liberal use of […]