Tips from a Year of Museuming
Whenever I enter a museum, I rediscover rhythms that I haven’t used since my last trip to Adventureland for nerds.
Subjective Joy
But I drove home after the interviews like a little sparrow. I was excited to get my hands in the dirt of the world, gracefully or not.
Missing Christmas Magic
Where was the magic in saltines and Gatorade for dinner, in spiking fevers and loneliness? Where was the magic in canceled flights and missed wedding celebrations?
I Voted for Quiet Music
We are perched side by side on an upper landing in this barn, floating in the resonant space of music we have never heard so close, have never heard unmediated, have never heard in four-part harmony.
Buckets, Biscuits, and Benders: A Hockey Skater’s Guide to Skating This Winter
You get the lumber laid on you, you get a face wash, you end up in a yard sale—you keep playing.
Starting Off “Right”
There’s no escaping a year; we’re in it for the whole, well, year.
Master of None
What if our words were less like swords (sharpened, polished) and more like textiles—equally demanding to make, but designed to warm rather than to wound?
The Children’s Autonomy Paradox
It asks the question: why must beautiful and capable children be constrained by the law of incompetent guardians?
Joy in One Hand & Sorrow in the Other
Grief docks in your life like a sail in a harbor.
Santa Hat on a Tree, Nails in the Walls
If I lived alone, my apartment would probably look destitute.
