Quote of the week:“The thing that screws us up the most is the picture in our head of how things are supposed to be.” –Glennon Doyle What I’m reading:With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt What I’m listening to:Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin What I’m watching:“The Accidental Tourist” (oldie but goodie)A bunch of Dateline murder — Read More
Weekly Roundup: July 16, 2021
Quote of the week: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful — Read More
In memory of my dad
My dad died.My dad died.My dad died. I keep thinking these words, waiting for them not to shock me. They still shock me. If I say them out loud–”my dad died”–my eyes well up with the kind of tears you get when you pluck a nose hair––instantaneous, uncontrollable tears. Tears that surprise you. The end — Read More
Weekly Roundup: July 2, 2021
Quote of the week:“Do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn’t matter at all.” –Pema Chödrön What I’m reading:You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen — very interesting What I’m listening to:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by — Read More
Weekly Roundup: June 25, 2021
Quote of the week:“Many people who want to write are unconsciously seeking peace, a coming together, an acknowledging of our happiness or an examination of what is broken, hoping to embrace and bring our suffering to wholeness.” –Natalie Goldberg What I’m reading:Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath — I do not regret motherhood, but this is — Read More
Weekly Roundup: June 18, 2021
Quote of the week:“The lonely fill up their lives with books.” –Sheila Heti What I’m reading:How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole Lepera What I’m listening to:Crying in H Mart: A Memoir — Michelle Zauner I also LOVED this week’s episode on the “We Can — Read More
Weekly Roundup: June 11, 2021
Quote of the week:“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, — Read More
Weekly Roundup: June 3, 2021
Quote of the week:“Getting your heart broken is a privilege of being human” — Paula McLain, from When the Stars Go Dark What I’m reading:Weather by Jenny OffillFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi What I’m listening to:The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley–just started! She’s one of my faves, so I’m — Read More
Weekly Roundup: May 28, 2021
Quote of the week:“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” –Frederick Buechner What I’m reading:Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Motherhood by Sheila Heti What I’m listening to:When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain“We Can Do Hard Things podcast,” episode 3. I wasn’t even going to listen to this because — Read More
Weekly Roundup: May 21, 2021
Quote of the week:“I felt the world’s suffering as a vast and permanent expanse, an ocean that could on a moment’s whim sweep anyone it chose to its depths” –Joanne Tompkins, What Comes After What I’m reading:Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte What I’m listening — Read More