My stack is out of control. I am hoping that this holiday weekend affords some serious reading time. I am always fascinated by what other people read, so thought I’d share the titles that are piled on my bedside table right now. I think what people read is a very good snapshot of what it [...]
I have been thinking nonstop about Anne Lamott’s piece, about our true wealth being this moment, this hour, this day. As usual, she is basically the oracle to me, among my wisest and most impactful teachers. I agree with her initial assertion “that there is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can [...]
There is no way for me to adequately convey my admiration, respect – hell, sheer hero-worship of – for Anne Lamott. This essay could have been crafted from my own thoughts. Admittedly, she took my fractured, ugly, disjointed thoughts and fashioned them into beautiful whole cloth. But what else is new. She also cites something [...]
What is authenticity? What is the truest expression of self? What do I really want? Who am I, at my deepest core? It’s awfully easy to lose sight of these things, at least for me, in a world where I feel the competing pressures of dozens of responsibilities and identities every single day. I’m a [...]
Grace, Whit and I went to Story Land for two days. We explored the park, leaving no ride, show, or exhibit untested. We stayed in a hotel. We swam. We went out for dinner. We had whipped cream on our waffles this morning. More about this magical visit another day. But I learned one simple [...]
I read Elizabeth at Life in Pencil’s post, Birth Plans, Life Plans, with interest yesterday. I think her acknowledgement of the ways that birth plans are an attempt to feel control in a fundamentally uncontrollable situation is wise. She writes that the birth plan “…helps me to battle the ambiguous vagaries of birth and provide [...]
I had lunch on Sunday with four of my dear friends from college. Everybody had a baby with them: one 4.5 month old, 2 2 month olds, and 1 baby in utero 2 days overdue. I had Grace. All of these friends have older children, but on Sunday it was striking to me to look [...]
My brain and heart right now feel both arid and overly full, depending on the hour, but neither state offers much inspiration. So, a repost from last year. This is still entirely characteristic of my life; this could have been any day of the last week. Landslide continues to feel extremely apt, close to the [...]
I’m wobbly lately, unsteady, fighting off a wave of sadness that’s rolling in as slowly but inexorably as a tide. And yet, in spite of it all, summer seems to be here. So, photographs. Teeth falling out Visit with our cousins Swimming lessons Tennis camp I hope inspiration returns with the solstice tomorrow. Email this [...]
“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.” (Elizabeth Strout, Abide With Me ) I have fallen out of touch with an old and dear friend with whom I shared [...]
