Three weeks into this Covid fear and conspiracy theories are increasing on my Facebook feed. This isn’t so much fear over the virus as it is in how the social distancing has gone. For example… A meme of a man being arrested for swimming alone in the ocean and a caption that decries ...
I try to laugh when I realize the apocalypse looks like homemaking. Who would’ve thought quarantine coping skills would entail so much housework? But, as far as world-altering scenarios go this one has been like a quiet unfolding. Covid-19 seems to signal the end of life as we knew it, ...
Seven years ago I set out to get serious about my writing. My dream to tell stories, construct beautiful sentences, and write entire books became a passion. I wanted to be a better writer without stopping life to get an MFA. So, I hit the library for books on writing. I listened to Bird by Bird ...
"Visiting ancestors only stay as long as someone is listening. If there's one thing every single one of my grandmas and great-grandmas had in common is that they refuse to suffer fools."
My grandma died this morning and I’m trying to imagine the world without her. This is odd to me, and unexpected, because my “Gigi” (so named after she became a Great Grandma over twenty years ago) hasn’t been an active part of my life for nearly a decade, and we’ve ...
This Spring has brought big changes to my life. I remember when I was a kid, growing up in the snowy white north of Upper Michigan, how Spring always revealed sleeping treasures. We’d spend Winter swathed in high snow banks, everything covered, sometimes with drifts way up over our heads. ...