Rhythms, Not Schedules
Why the clock keeps breaking your day at home — and the older, gentler way of ordering it. Every morning my children wake, and most days they are happy —…
3 Valuable Lessons I learned From Instagram Follow Loops
Friends, let’s talk about 3 valuable lessons I learned from Instagram Follow loops and gaining 2,354 followers. I ran an experiment on my own Instagram account. Over four weeks…
Our Family Guacamole — Chunky, No-Mash, 15 Minutes
I’ve never liked scrolling past someone’s life story to find the measurements, so I won’t do that to you. The recipe is right here. The story — and it involves…
We Sold the House to Move Into an Apartment
We Sold the House to Move Into an Apartment I wrote most of this in 2016, a few weeks after we moved in. I’ve left it in the present tense….
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Every Toy Was on the Floor I walked into the room and every toy was on the floor. Every single one. The bins were empty and tipped. There was no path to the window. I could have sighed. The sigh was ...
We Sold the House to Move Into an Apartment
We Sold the House to Move Into an Apartment I wrote most of this in 2016, a few weeks after we moved in. I've left it in the present tense. In college, Cecil and I could not wait to get out of an ...
Five Desks — On Writing, and the Places I Didn’t Have
Five Desks The first one It was in a bright room at the back of the house in Mexico, and it wobbled. A small wooden thing, leaning against my grandfather's bed — the one he napped on in the afternoons. ...
