For personal, professional, and creative reasons, I will resume regular blog posts on May 1st. I hope these words from Ira Glass linger with you in the meantime: Love and inspiration to you,
Okay, so balance is a big thing right? Don’t most of our goals really boil down to finding more balance? Well, eating less sugar is one of my goals. I like to think that eating no sugar is my goal. But that would be called an unrealistic goal. I’m pretty sure it was high school […]
Starting a blog has challenged me in numerous ways. It’s been humbling, mostly. Many times, I’ve made that final correction in editing a post and thought to myself, “Oh yes, this is the one!” This is the fabulous post that will finally launch my readership to astronomical heights. Then I get a few likes and […]
In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didon recounts the year following the sudden death of her husband, a tragedy compounded by the admittance of her only daughter into the ICU for a case of pneumonia gone wrong, and later, a traumatic brain injury. I love Joan for her candor, her laser acute perceptibility, and […]
Life is busy like life often is. Busyness squelches a lot of great things and kitchen creativity is one of them. With little time or space lately to experiment, I offer you these two staples from our house. GOUDA CAULIFLOWER MASH Ingredients 1 head cauliflower 4 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup milk 4 ounces Gouda cheese […]
Your Heart, Praise God I wish I could visit your heart like a museum, pry open your sternum with my hands, exposing the bumbum bumbum shining and red and pulsing with your life. I’d knock gently with a fingertip, wherein you’d welcome me. Through sinews, sliding down the aorta, veering around the vena cava, trekking […]
Saturday I was sworn into a secret, underground writing club. Very exclusive, and every bit as mysterious as it sounds. Our first meeting inspired me greatly, and I walked away sensing I’d just participated in something for which I was created. With divine vigor, I’ve been thinking about writing. Having almost cajoled myself into believing […]
We all read a few classics under the careful guardian of American education, didn’t we? Even though I might recall a rogue title, I can’t seem to remember the fluid genius that made those books great. I remember a couple tragic scenes from The Great Gatsby, the woman hit by a car and the man […]
The other morning I was holding my cat like a baby while I cooked eggs. He is the softest, warmest bundle of love. I call him many names, usually Ernest, because that is his name. But I also call him “bear” and “little bear” and “bear, bear” and when referring to him around our other […]
She’s down there. At the bottom of the well at the bottom of my heart breaking her fingernails to climb out. My self. The real one, the one I actually am. She gets flooded though, by the mainstream waters always rushing in and covering her up. By the seeming need to look beautiful and have […]
This post is sloppy and long and mostly brags on my husband, Andrew. But this weekend, I learned a lesson about grace that I’m compelled to share. These things don’t always translate cleanly into language as we hope, so we just put down what we can wiggle out. Here’s what I wiggled out. It seems […]
In North Carolina, we haven’t see the sun for days. Every morning is dreary and gray. The asphalt is wet. I’m carrying that uncomfortable feeling around my ankles as a result of my pant bottoms soaking up puddles. A snow storm is coming. No better time for a hot bowl of soup. Ingredients 3 chicken […]
The students are back from holiday. Sidewalks teem and there is traffic at the stoplight again. Working on the campus where I went to college can sometimes produce the illusion I am still in college. But driving by the apartments yesterday was a brazen reminder that I am not, in fact, still a student. I […]
