Sentinel fragments
FRAGMENTS | Are you seeing this? With my thumbs, in the dark, I wrote a first draft of this essay (if it is an essay?) in January, soon after the COVID-19 death toll in the United States crossed ...
The buried, alive
MUSINGS | Another month gone and I’m still buried in it. I have been trying to write more like I talk, or rather, more like the way I talked before parenthood and perpetual exhaustion ...
Go deep
MUSINGS | It’s the end of the year as we know it. I’ve been trying to write about depth — a sort of metaphorical piece (you know I love those) about being in the deep, in the dark places. ...
F2020 ORC – The yellow bathroom (I go back to black)
THE ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | The Yellow Bathroom Revealed! I set my alarm for 6:45 am today. Right around sunrise. My little yellow bathroom gets the best light right at the start of the day. ...
F2020 ORC – Something to look forward to?
RAMBLING | Is this about the ORC? About house hunting? About something else entirely? It’s 8:10pm on the night the ORC posts are supposed to go up and I’m lying in bed next to my five year old, ...
F2020 ORC – Champagne wishes, caviar dreams, and cheap wallpaper
DECORATING | Okay, so here we are on week three of the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge and I’m talking cheap wallpaper. And I am feeling poor. I’m not REALLY poor. I mean, I have ...
Burnt
PERSONAL ESSAY | In mid-September, I got a sunburn. My first. My skin — a majority of my skin, the largest of all my organs — reddened and tightened, and the inside of my clothing rasped against ...
F2020 ORC – Golden, but no showers
DIY UPCYCLING | And pondering if gold makes everything better … or not? So here we are on week two! I have done almost nothing since week one except ponder the question of if gold makes ...
F2020 ORC – The Yellow MCM Bathroom begins
DECORATING | The Fall 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) and … yet another MCM bathroom? Guess who’s back!? Back again!? I am back! Tell a friend! Yep. I did it. I signed up for the ...
Melusine and the sea
STORY | Melusine and The Sea (a wee tale for wee people by Jen Selk) Melusine lived in a little place, overlooking an enormous sea. And she didn’t like it. She was afraid of the water. She ...
S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom Makeover Revealed!
DECORATING | The One Room Challenge comes to a close. Here’s my big bathroom makeover reveal! Whelp. This is it. The big bathroom makeover reveal. I am feeling good about it in real life, ...
S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom details, Week 7
DECORATING | Talking finishing touches as the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) nears its end. Whelp. This is it. The end is nigh! The One Room Challenge (ORC) is drawing to a close and here ...