This weekend I went to Pittsburgh to help a friend move. It was sunny and warm and I ate well and lots of ice cream. I came back and it rained violently but I walked the dogs anyway because they don’t care about rain. The next day I helped clean beer cans, wrappers, and red […]
I’m still coming to terms with the fact that what I want to be when I grow up has changed. Like, they just don’t tell you that might happen. They ask you what you want to be when you grow up and if you’re one of the lucky ones, maybe you know and you have […]
I haven’t taken a poll or anything but I’m reasonably confident in saying people are afraid of trying new things. I use this conversation with my husband as evidence: Me: I really kind of HATE doing new thingsHim: Me too, I just wouldn’t do it There’s comfort in the familiar. There’s fear, anxiety, discomfort and […]
I feel bad for people who don’t adventure outside. They will never know the unique joy of Epic. In the old days it would be long poems or songs, narrating the great deeds of heroes. These days, it’s social media and the stories we tell the like-minded to get a “cool” and the rest to […]
Birthdays are hard as a grown up. The joy has gone out of growing older. I’ve got wrinkles and body aches and a job and a mortgage and a car payment and everyone tells you when you’re a kid that it isn’t better to be an adult but you don’t believe it until it happens. What […]
I sometimes try and see the world through my niece’s eyes. And it’s terrifying. I know I’m lucky to have grown up in a time before social media, before we walked around with small computers in our pockets that controlled our minds and tracked everything we do. I know I couldn’t live without technology because I’m […]
Sometimes I feel like I spent years waiting on someone or something. These days I try not to. These days if I want to do a thing, I just do it, with or without someone to do it with. This is hard. I know we are pack animals at heart, but I think about all […]
Well you never know how far from home you’re feelingUntil you watch the shadows cross the ceilingWell I don’t know but I can see it snowingIn your car the windows are wide open Come on homeCome on homeNo you don’t have to be aloneJust come on home I’m not sure where home is anymore. I […]
Sometimes happiness feels like a broken heart. It’s like that sad song you love, it’s like crying when you’re happy, laughing at a funeral. Joy and sorrow are so close, and inescapably human. I was so happy these days in Indian Lake that it broke my heart. I kept asking myself what we did to […]
Religious folk say suffering is good for the soul. I don’t know about that but I know that the suffering you take on yourself is good for the mind. Sometimes it’s called type 2 fun. Sometimes it’s like this: life is hard and so you make yourself suffer on purpose so the hard things don’t […]
