Hello! Happiest of days! I'm once again stuck in my analysis paralysis on what to write because there are eleventy billion things to write about and it all feels important. Therefore none of it feels like it should be the ONE thing. So then I write about nothing and the words feel like they might literally burst out of my brain and my body in a real tragic Sigourney Weaver Alien moment. WORDS EVERYWHERE. In no particular order. Some all mushed together. All chaos. A word salad of epic...
about 4 years ago • 3 min read
Hi there, Reader, I was interviewed about a month ago by the hosts of one of my favorite podcasts, Pantsuit Politics, about my experience with long Covid and how it has affected my friendships. At least that's what I remembered being asked about. The episode just came out last week and as I was listening, I realized that the initial question was actually "how has POLITICS affected your friendship". There were three other women that were selected to be part of the interview and while,...
about 4 years ago • 3 min read
This summer has been weird. Fast and slow and disappointing and absurd and full of unmet expectations and a little burnout. Is it me or is it the creeping dread of an existential American crisis? There's been too much screen time and work crammed into the margins. Grumpy kids and a grumpy mom. Missed events due to Covid. There have been some delicious, summery moments. Watermelon and popsicles and cold Prosecco and a giant slip and slide for the kids. Pretty flowers and warm cherry tomatoes...
about 4 years ago • 2 min read
Hi you. It's been a few weeks. Something I've come to understand about myself is that I feel entirely befuddled and fuzzy and discombobulated when I'm having a lot of Big Feelings. The Big Feelings become manageable and less overwhelming when I can write them into Words That People Read, but when those words are unarticulated, I am useless. It's a really good time inside my brain. I know we've talked about this before here, me and you. About the never-ending news cycle and seemingly endless...
over 4 years ago • 2 min read
Today marks exactly 18 months since I first got sick with Covid (for the first time lololol party time). A year and a half feels like a milestone and a stone cold bitch, Reader. Earlier in the week, I realized that the 19th would fall smack dab on the day I usually (sometimes? occasionally?) email you, and that felt entirely poetic. Like the story was dying to be told. And then on Thursday morning, shortly before we were supposed to leave for Seattle for a Mariners game, I tested positive for...
over 4 years ago • 2 min read
A few weeks ago, I wrote to you about the Situation That Is May. About the endless paperwork of school ending and an inbox that resembles an entirely unspooled ball of yarn and a calendar that is stuffed to the gills. AND THAT WAS BEFORE UVALDE. It just feels endless right now. The news and the input and the errands and the things I'm obviously forgetting to do. But so much of it is still good. I have a lovely idea for teacher gifts and lovely people to give them to, but very little time to...
over 4 years ago • 2 min read
Reader, I haven't written to you in THREE WEEKS. It's not because we're fighting, I promise you. Honestly, you could have run me over with your car last week, and I wouldn't remember. First of all, I find it zero percent coincidental that we are three weeks and one day into May, and I haven't been in your inbox in three weeks. May is a whole situation, ya'll. My husband and I got married on May 20th like big dummies who didn't have school-aged children who play baseball. Bless and protect...
over 4 years ago • 3 min read
I try to listen to the New York Times The Daily podcast most every day, so it's often top of my podcast feed. When I read the episode title 'Did Covid Change How We Dream' back in November 2021, I gasped out loud. IT WASN'T JUST ME. The episode is fascinating and I highly recommend it, but it's also worth Googling 'Covid Dreams' just to see all the different results that come up. I'm not talking just people who have HAD Covid, but anyone who has gone through this pandemic. Which is, you know,...
over 4 years ago • 3 min read
How are you Reader? After sharing in last week's email about my anxiety attack and how I've been taking medication for quite some time now, I received some really thoughtful replies. I think because I live inside my head so much (hellooooooo Enneagram 4 energy), I've come to believe that everyone is talking about anxiety now. It's everywhere! It's out there! And while it's eleventy nine thousand million times better than even my parents generation or when I was in high school and college,...
over 4 years ago • 3 min read