Pandemic Guilt
Tell me you have pandemic parenting guilt without telling me you have pandemic parenting guilt. I’ll go first: I play Minecraft.
Read More Pandemic GuiltO Divine Redeemer
Covid has presented me with several silver linings. One that came with a surprise was the discovery that I had never played an Easter solo (always accompanying, usually choirs.) It was a truly special experience to prepare this piece, taking myself through the final days or Christ’s life, and through some of my own dark […]
Read More O Divine RedeemerOn Embodiment
“You’ve got good childbearing hips,” the ladies said to me as I stood there in the shade, a baby on my hip. I think I was 8 years old. I could have been older but I was certainly prepubescent. Who says that to a child? I’m sure she was trying to compliment me on my […]
Read More On EmbodimentSelf
Does anyone else look at their children’s naturally-derived sense of self and wonder what kind of monster can go through life without debilitating anxiety? Just me? Cool. Cool cool cool.
Read More SelfPandemic Time
Pandemic time is still time It still marches to its own beat With no input from us mere mortals. But pandemic time is like jello You can move through it But navigation is a guess Your movements sticky, slow. You can see beyond yourself, Blurry, but recognizable. The other side looks within reach But remains […]
Read More Pandemic TimeOf Bikes and Boys
Tonight instead of going to sleep E is telling me about when he gets his drivers license he’s going to get a motorcycle and drive faster than the speed limit and learn to do wheelies and it’ll be “crazy cool”. 😂 R also would like to learn to drive a motorcycle but as he is […]
Read More Of Bikes and BoysYou win some, you lose some
I found a picture from August of last year. It was my feet on the bathroom scale. At the time I took it I thought it would be motivation to get back on track, since it was more than five pounds higher than when I had left Texas a year prior. And it’s ten pounds […]
Read More You win some, you lose someCovid Check-In
Hi friends! Are you hanging in there? How long have you been sheltering in place? For us it’s been over a month. But I don’t have a firm grasp on time anymore so I can’t even tell you what day is TODAY, let alone how many times Groundhog Day repeats itself. That’s what I call […]
Read More Covid Check-InThat the Destroyer Will Pass Over Our Home
I’ve been preparing my whole life to shop like a ninja – avoiding people. Fortunately I also have gloves and masks left over from my bathroom project in the Texas house. I venture out rarely, and when I do I make use of all the tools at my disposal to keep me safe. And when […]
Read More That the Destroyer Will Pass Over Our HomeNew Coworkers
Tell us something your kids have done lately, but say it was your coworkers. (Since we are working from home now anyway …) I just spent 20 minutes arguing with a coworker over the merits of underpants.
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