The last month has been a time of reckoning. Reckoning with bad actions, reckoning with failures, and reckoning with a year of ignoring the lessons I was supposed to learn. I have the uncanny habit — both nature and nurture — of turning up the music so I can’t hear when my life is talking […]
Purposeful Parenting, and other musings on tricky subjects
[Big shout out to my sparkle soul sister Tessa for lobbing the first request for advice right away.] What’s the best parenting advice you never got? I’ve thought long and hard about this one, mostly because I’ve received some really wonderful advice, and also because no advice will ever fully prepare you for the wildly […]
The Polar Express to Crazytown
The whiteboard calendar in my mudroom meant to organize us says October, and it’s blank. There aren’t even numbers for the days—just the month “October” in black Sharpie at the top. No joke. This weekend, post-Thanksgiving, I ate dessert for breakfast, dessert for snack, post-lunch dessert, and then pie. A brick of Gouda mashed potatoes […]
The Latest and Greatest
Buckle up: this is a true story. Last week some time—or, because I have no good sense of time, or linear progression, or anything involving numbers or remotely close to math, it may have been the week before—I was speeding in the toll lane on I-15 from work back downtown. I was drinking a cold […]
The Short Stack: A Collection Of Minor Efforts
Last night I dreamt that I attended—maybe even hosted, it’s a bit fuzzy—a girl’s retreat with Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach. Strangely enough, the venue was the dilapidated white farmhouse of my dear childhood friend—a thick redheaded twin who I used to run with in 7th grade who was kind and sweet and who I […]
The Deathbed Test, And Other Shortcuts
PSA: I’m going to tell you the story of how I found my way back to myself from brokenness, so you may want to wait until you have a minute. Especially after you get to the end, when you’re likely going to want to stand up, walk to a different room, and put your phone […]