Archive for the ‘life’ Category
this is so tragically true
Posted in life on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
growth
Posted in life on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i am trying to be bigger than the little things that trap me. bigger hearted, bigger minded, bigger picture. just…bigger. i’ve been hemmed in by this notion of a number on the scale, what it means to be a wife, what it means to be a friend, and lately i am realizing all that really [...]
seriously?
Posted in life on October 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
ok, blog. it’s been awhile, and i’m not promising that i’m back for good. the thing is, blog, i don’t get a lot from you and i’m at a place in my life where i need my relationships to be fruitful, two-sided, i need them to bring good things to me, not just guilt because [...]
eva olive
Posted in life on August 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
my new niece has entered the world. she joins brandon and teryn and oslo and bella and sam and wilson and completes their family. she enriches ours. i am overwhelmed with how much love i feel for this precious new human being, and cannot wait to see all of her joys and journeys as she [...]
a long time gone
Posted in life on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i’ve been missing this blog lately, but so much good has been happening, i haven’t been able to find time to write. i want to say so many things but for now, only this: life is good.
33
Posted in life on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
today i am 33. it is hard to wrap my head around this number. 32 was easy, it felt like double 16: twice as giddy, twice as silly, twice as wide-eyed and optimistic, but 33 feels like i am moving farther away from youth which, i suppose, i am. i just hope i can always [...]
her kind
Posted in life on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘her kind,’ anne sexton
i have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with [...]
breathe
