I recently had a birthday. It wasn’t a cultural milestone, but it was another year gone by, and not-so-oddly enough, each year the number is bigger. On the morning of my birthday, I realized that I never love the number from the year before with the unmitigated intensity that I do the day that it … [Read more…]
There are so many things to say. There are so many things to read. I am daily daunted by the number of topics and causes and ways that we can remake the world. I want to be a part of the change, to be a person who uses my energy to make the world a … [Read more…]
This week I was gently reminded of a few things, one of them being my propensity to bury myself in to-do lists. Lists of good things that really do need to get done and can thereby take over my life. Those little black dots that line up neatly in front of things I must accomplish … [Read more…]
Last week was one year since I started this blog. It was also the first full week of the new year. I am excited and encouraged that this blog has made it through its first 12 months. It makes me think a little bit of the Hawaiian tradition of celebrating a first birthday with an … [Read more…]
I spent two weekends this month driving across the Southwestern United States traveling both toward and away in an undulation that highlighted a little bit of what it feels like to come and go. Away from our home, toward my husband’s family. Away from our family and toward our home. Leaving as I was going … [Read more…]
It’s been one of those weeks. The kind where you have concert tickets for Sunday night, and you do not realize until Wednesday morning that you did not go to said concert. You stayed in town expressly for the purpose of going to the concert, you had it written on the calendar on your computer … [Read more…]
There are plenty of moments when I get sucked into the phantasia that is the internet, shuffling my way blindly through articles and blogs and videos and lists and quizzes until I discover way more than I ever imagined I could. And while some of these forays into the world wide web are totally guilty … [Read more…]
Off the grid in the strict definition means to live without connection to an electrical power grid. When I hear it, however, I tend to think about a cabin covered in moss on the edge of a lake with a rusty row boat and two weathered Adirondack chairs. There is a large part of me … [Read more…]
What do you do when you get a haircut that makes you look like an altar boy? In my earlier days, I would have stared in the mirror pulling on the offending strands, my face covered in tears, hoping to force them to look the way that I imagined in my head when I first … [Read more…]
It’s been a wild and crazy couple of months for me. I’ve had the joy of participating in two field courses that were the last two classes for my MS in biology. One class was in the mountains and one was at the beach. One was a two-week adventure in trapping mice and shrews and … [Read more…]