Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn’t seem to make sense, is a worthy [...]
Over Labor Day Matt and I attended the wedding of one of my college roommates. Oh, my, but it was fun. The bridesmaids surprised the bride with a flash mob dance to Dynamite. I’ve never seen her speechless before, but she was. I love the blur of the photo above, which captures the palpable love [...]
I picked up Learning to Breathe knowing I’d love it. The topic appealed to me: the author’s yearlong quest to bring calm to her life. Dani Shapiro, whose opinion I trust implicitly, both blurbed it and personally told me she thought I’d like it. The description of the author as someone with a “great life” [...]
Grace came home from a day of her second week of third grade with two announcements. The first was that this year she had Mrs. S for music, who also taught me, back in the dark ages. The second was that they were learning Joni Mitchell’s Circle Game. Whit, with his uncanny ability to suss [...]
So, the final installment of the marvelous anniversary questions … I have saved the big questions, the ones I really struggled with, for last. How has writing changed my living? Certainly writing here, and in other places, has made me pay more attention to the details of my life. There is no question I’m more [...]
What is the meaning of life? … a simple question; one that seemed to close in on one with the years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. – Virginia Woolf (read this the first time [...]
A couple of years ago I realized that the annual, persistent cold I got in the spring was seasonal allergies. Odd, I thought: I’ve never had these before. My doctor told me that it’s actually common to develop them in midlife. Okay. So now I take Allegra for a while in the spring and all [...]
Now, time for more answers … another group of questions emerged, around the logistics and reality of blogging and writing. Do I ever feel like I’m running out of ideas? Am I a quick writer or do I linger over words? When do I write? Do I write lots of posts at once? How do [...]
When I decided to go back to Legoland with Grace and Whit this summer, I worried that maybe it was wrong to try to revisit and recapture one of the most glorious memories of my time as a mother. Perhaps we would all be disappointed, inevitably, and I’d regret the decision. Ultimately I couldn’t resist [...]
Thank you so, so, so incredibly much for your warm and thoughtful wishes last week on my 5th blog anniversary. I can’t quite imagine it either, for the record. And the thought of five more years here seems both daunting and inevitable. I want to respond to your questions, and will do so in a [...]
