Sitting with the Darkness
Living in the shadows of 14,000 foot peaks, the mountains offered ample lectures on living with limited light.
Thoughts on Popular Death
I wish we would pay death its due, despite our reality TV shows and action movies and awful country tunes.
More Festive Erotica with Your Favorite Librarian
Fun new surprises to this volume include the worst pet name for any child, several cameos from the Michelle Love extended universe, and multiple scenes that make one go, “I can’t imagine that’s how sex clubs actually function.”
Christmas is Here
It puts me in mind of Christmas in Canada: joy in enormous measure, coupled with the inescapable aches of cold
Christmas Eve, Anticipation, and Alexander Ovechkin
There’s something about Waldorf, Maryland that just screams “mundane!”
Why I Always Come Back to ‘Reply 1988’
It seems Korea fell in love with this aspect of the show just as much as I would less than a year later.
If Christmas Letters Were Honest
Christmas letters, in essence, are highlight reels.
The Whittling
Are our true selves buried under all our stuff?
Why I Stopped Writing
The girl who had spent her teenage years wearing Lord of the Rings costumes to the grocery store grew more polished and careful, but then the mask started to fit a little too well.
Loved, Seen, and Cared For
Not everyone is everything to everybody.
