Some days I just feel like I’m wandering aimlessly through my life without offering anything of substance. For all of the lip service we pay to the importance of being a mother, we sure are good at making moms feel like they need to be doing something else with their lives. And yes, I believe…
You’re writing your own story. Right now.
Stories. We live and die by them. They shape the way we view people and the way we view the world around us. Everyone has their own plot line, their own villains and their own heroes. We can’t help but view the events of our world in the context of our own stories. If you’re…
Life in Monochrome
Life in Monochrome Leaves scattered as I stepped onto the cracked stoop. Everything felt gray – the air, the sky, the house. Me. I had never really thought of gray as a feeling before I moved to this place. The color trickled out of my life in such a way that I didn’t even notice…
Death, life, and things I never thought I’d say
My birthday falls a week after the new year. For me, this time of year has always felt “new.” New calendar year. Another year older. The chaos of the holidays comes to an end whenever my birthday ends, and then there’s expectation. I’ve never been much of a resolution person. I’ve never been organized enough….
Welcoming a new one to the pack
If you know anything about us, you know that we are dog people. Like, we love animals. We have a soft spot for them – all of them – and basically cannot say no if one needs us. Early in our relationship, we decided to rescue our first pup. Enter Delilah. As we got closer…
My dad died last night.
My dad died last night. To say our relationship was strained would be an understatement. Our history was a hard one, full of addiction and abuse and absence. Looking back, I don’t think I spent any time alone with my dad in the last 20 years of his life. The only real connection he’d been…
Guilt and working mom life
It’s a cliché to say that having a kid changes everything, but having a kid changes everything. Really, for me, it triggered a bit of an identity crisis. I’d been writing and playing music until all hours and working from wherever I wanted for 5 years. We had two remote jobs that allowed traveling, working from…
The right place right now
I got to spend this week in Nashville with my husband and son and my coworkers.
The glorification of busy: Why I’m a crazy person
I’m a busy person. My husband and I both work full time in relatively demanding jobs. We have a 5 month old baby, a 10 year old, and three high energy dogs. I feel (like most of people) that the list never ends. I spend every waking hour just trying to get it all done….
The comparison game and keeping up with “the rules”
Humans make everything so hard. Okay, I’m talking about me. I make everything so hard. Right now, Jude is in pain on and off. His gums are swollen. He fusses. He pulls on his mouth and has a low grade fever, and struggles with sleep sometimes. It’s the first time there’s been an obstacle that…