I heard her laugh often. I saw her mean. I watched her love. I learned from her silent action to do for someone else. Always. Always for someone else. She was not of the generation that considered the idea of self-care. I loved the way her wrinkly fingers would wash my lips after we ate [...]
{I'm giving this song back to you–it has always been true, in unconventional ways: I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden} Roughly a million years ago, back in the stone-aged time of the internet being relatively new, I was catfished. This was well before Nev Schulman coined the term, back when no one knew [...]
I have procrastinated this July lesson post because I'm just not in the mood. I'm tired. I'm stressed. In these two ways, I am just like the majority of us... I get it. This month felt long, short, and like it dragged on forever while it also somehow sped by in a blink. My biggest [...]
In what feels like another life, I hated writing in pencil. I hated how the tip felt, whether sharp or dull, as it glid across the page. I'm unsure what my issue was, or exactly when it changed. One day I was a devoted pen user, cringing with the equivalence of nails on a chalkboard [...]
Rainy Day in May... 