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every book i read in 2018
favorite books of 2019 Looking at the list of books I read this year, I can see now that it wasn’t a gangbuster year for reading. I hit a few hard slumps (late spring and early winter both had me spiraling), and a desire to reduce my belongings meant I read a lot of books…
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new year, new intentions: a gentle course for 2019
We’re in the new year, and like I have every January, I wrestle with how arbitrary this designation is—and how sacred it continues to be. In Minnesota, the light thins in January. It becomes soft and pale, and it lays itself on white snow. It’s a clean light, an energizing one. It’s become a yearly…
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there and back again: minnesota for thanksgiving and homesickness that doesn’t fade
We leave, we return, we leave again, and the lines I drew between home and not home begin to blur. Before we flew home for Thanksgiving, I told Chris I was anxious. Big feelings make me anxious. What would it feel like to be in Minnesota again? Would it make Maryland more familiar? Or less?…
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taking risks + saying yes: thoughts after a first season in maryland
#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1542458488096_45297 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid { margin-right: -0px; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1542458488096_45297 .sqs-gallery-block-grid .sqs-gallery-design-grid-slide .margin-wrapper { margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } I don’t mind sharing the hard or ugly parts of life—life gets hard and ugly; let’s talk about it. It’s the middles that trip me up. The space between the unknown and the understanding. I stop writing in…
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best books i’ve read lately
Let me tell you about the best books I’ve read since August. I’ve been on a burner lately. After devouring the Harry Potter series after we moved (Harry Potter being my literary equivalent of chips and queso), I dove into the piles of unread books I hauled across the country. Some have been barely okay,…
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chris and me + moving away: how maryland’s been on our relationship
My handsome, handsome love | Catoctin Mountain Park | August Let’s talk about the ways we love, and fail to love each other. Let’s talk about them even though it’s hard. This move brought with it a storm of homesickness that stunned and stunted my first days and weeks in Maryland. Like everything in life,…
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the overlap of all these endings and beginnings: summer 2018 recap
It was almost a jolt for me, last Monday, when I began to see my social media feed fill with “goodbye summer” posts. Even though my work is tied directly to the school calendar, it didn’t register that, of course, summer is drawing to a close. I’m tethered to rhythms, and usually, I love to…
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all the magic london had to give
London was a storybook. It was six days of pure magic. London is another city I have loved from afar, primarily through literature. For so long, London was the center of Western cultural production, and, for good and bad, the center of the Western literary canon that I devoured in my childhood. This city showed…
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our first week in maryland: homesickness, hope + an apartment tour
View fullsize As my parents prepared to return to Minnesota and the reality that I wouldn’t be returning with them set in, I kept saying, “I want this experience of leaving. I just wish it didn’t hurt so much.” – – – We arrived in Maryland last Wednesday after a Herculean 20+ hour drive, and…