Recalibrating
It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with this space, but I’ve recently found myself yearning to sit and think aloud here. I’ve missed doing this, even though it’s something that I haven’t...
View ArticleThis week’s little pleasures
This past weekend was farmer’s market weekend, so I bought lots of fruit (I managed to consume very little of it before it got eaten up by other members of my household.)Things I cooked that made me...
View ArticleLearning to cook
When I think about my family's relationship to the kitchen, I think about a lot of different things. The good, the bad, the "why on earth would a person want to make that"? (Grandma's amazing homemade...
View ArticleTracking joy
I'm trying to decide what to call these posts. I'll probably go through a few more iterations of a title, but I want to keep writing weekly posts that simply list the things that have brought me joy....
View ArticleVisiting cemeteries
I do not know when it began, but I know that I have long loved wandering around cemeteries. I know that when I was in college and studying in Vienna, our professors made sure we went to the graves of...
View ArticleTracking Joy: End of July
One of the things that I have been thinking a lot about is beginnings and endings. Some of this comes from ideas that I've learned through some of the podcasts I regularly listen to (Gretchen Rubin's...
View ArticleTracking Joy: Mitigating the Negativity
I admit that I am feeling a lot of negative emotions this week, which sometimes worries me that I’m heading for a type of bitterness and anger that I don’t want to have as my general attitude towards...
View ArticleTrying to rediscover a creative impulse
I've always struggled to view myself as a creative person. Instead, I have spent a lot of time around creative people, wishing that I were more creative, more inventive, that I spent more time making...
View ArticleSeeking nature
I will be about the last person you will ever find in a camping tent. The last time I was in one, I was about 11 and I have no intention of ever doing it again (think Calvin's mom on camping trips, if...
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