This Weekend, This is What “Wild Things” Brings to Mind

I’m taking a class at my church right now on Wendell Berry, and slowly, naturally, like water in earth, I am absorbing this man and his words. This poem in particular struck me and left my heart reverberating, like a violin string.
The [...]

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“This Most Amazing Day”

I have had all sorts of thoughts buzzing about in my head lately, which has produced a messy handful of notes that I wrote to myself all over the place — on walks, while driving (at stoplights), and when I woke up in the middle of the night.
But those thoughts are still forming themselves into [...]

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ee cummings is Always the Right Way to Start and End Any Day

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not [...]

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Which One of These Is Not Like The Other (Answer: Both)

Two entirely unconnected things that make me really excited.
#1. Adam

I cannot WAIT to see this (thanks to a glowing review it got in Relevant today). a) It simply looks extraordinary — courageous, funny, not-your-average-love-story, but also not some typical “see the mentally handicapped guy triumph and get a high five” kind of story. (Oh, and [...]

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Bat(ten) Down the Hatches

Tonight, the second bat in the past week made its way into our house.
Hence, for the second time in the past week, I screamed like a banshee and locked myself in my room until someone more brave got rid of it.
On a better note, it was a deliciously gorgeous warm day, so I walked to [...]

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This Must Be How Napoleon Felt (Before Elba)

Victory, my friends.
Pure, unadulterated, glorious VICTORY.
After almost a year, I have finally finished Albert Camus’ L’Étranger (The Stranger in English).

This was the first book in French that I have timidly tackled since college, and being several years out of practice, I was not sure that I would come out on the other end with any [...]

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Notes on Leaving

Remember those giant flat wheelie-things on the playground that had a bunch of railings on them; one person would start pushing it in circles, then jump on and it would whirl around so fast that by the end of the ride, you felt like your eyeballs were in your toes, and you stumbled dizzily around, [...]

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Pssssssst.

P.S.  If you’re looking for good book recommendations to curl up with over the holidays, I just updated my “I Read” section. If you don’t look at it, I’ll know and then I’ll cry.
Ok, maybe not.
But I did work hard to make it look cool…so check it out.

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To the Kathleen Kellys and Helene Hanffs

We’ve been snowed in like little rabbits in a hole over the past few days, which has resulted in lots of time for leisure (enjoyable yet still tinged ever so slightly with that “Why aren’t I being more productive?” American guilt). And as women of leisure, we have indulged in movies, movies and more movies…with a [...]

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Write Me a Symphony of Words and I’ll Listen Forever

“All my life, I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
-Ernest Hemingway

I’ve wanted to write for as far back as I can remember. My words haven’t always been particularly original or interesting, but it’s the pulse, the pure, creative force, the art of writing that has always held me [...]

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