Yearly Archives: 2021

The most important similarity between humans and trees is that each tree, like each human, is unique and beautiful in its own way.

Marie thought there was a lot of ideas her work was incapable of exploring: mathematical axioms; the eight minutes and 48 seconds George Floyd spent on the ground, dying.

We made the mistake of reading the Ferber book which advocates letting your child cry themselves to sleep. It was hideous. No grace. No laughter.

He is in the bathroom getting ready for bed.  I hear the water running from the faucet, then it is turned off, then it runs again, then it is off, on, off, on and off for 15 minutes.

I haven’t lived in that house for 27 years. I wish I could better trust the reliability of my memories from inside it, but I know which memories are from before and after grief moved in.

I thought about how even though I couldn’t see my family physically, I’ve spoken to them more in the last year than I had the previous two years combined.

This is a letter to my anxiety, and to the morning of Dec. 6, 2013, when I think that something is not quite right. It was still early––too early, except what I mean is there was no sun up yet, no blue walls, no shower or warm spot.ve

She looked around her pink and white bedroom. Pink: her favorite color. Her journal, also pink, with a picture of a pretty little girl on it, surrounded by flowers.

People call this “Glamping” because we are in cabins with indoor bathrooms, not tents and outhouses, but there is nothing “glam” about it.

By Katherine Flannery Dering I spent days getting up early and clicking on various websites, eager to get my COVID shot appointment. And then, one...

The words “I don’t feel the same” were never said, I was just left with silence. For someone who constantly has music, silence is deafening.

Blake was four years older and he understood what that meant, recognized that being older was more a duty than an inconvenience.