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. ...
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. ...
Ministry of the Interior, Open Notebook
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, ...
Champagne wishes, caviar dreams
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 ...
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 ...
MCM Pink Bathroom Reveal
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 ...
S2020 ORC – The Pink Bathroom goes green, Week 4
DECORATING | The Spring 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC). Talking paint. Paint and pink tile. Paint and panic. Green walls. Magic moments. Can we talk about paint for a minute? Can we talk about how ...