The Green Knight: A Story for When Christmas Is ‘Dark and Hard’
Every event feels necessary, but most of it is nonsense.
Vive la Libération
I somehow want to “succeed” in my social interactions. Oldest daughter syndrome claims another victim.
The Spiral
It’s hard not to think of repeated patterns as some kind of failure.
Christmas Movies You Missed
I didn’t realize until now that I want an oversized sweater to curl up in while feeding my cat milk?
Carlisle’s Christmas Classics
Listening to those songs always reminds me of cutting paper snowflakes around the dining room table, putting up tin or clay ornaments on the tree, decorating sugar cookies made from a slightly altered recipe my dad’s been honing for years.
In Loving Memory
How strange it is to choose to labor over writing the perfect string of words, singing with the perfect tone, preparing the perfect meal to honor a person who can’t experience their veneration.
Advent, Strattera, and a Quest for Perseverance
In the expectation and longing for something to finally change, where our “now” seems broken beyond repair and our “not yet” can’t afford to be delayed, Advent meets us where we are.
A Reunion in Six Parts
I introduced myself and finally learned my inverse’s name: Brooke.
Ways to Say I Love You
Voice memo: 3.1 minutes
Voice memo: 30 seconds
Voice memo: 5 minutes
Revisiting the Scariest Christmas Movie of My Childhood
But eight-year-old me hadn’t learned about rhetorical analysis yet, so instead, I ran out of the room whenever that scene came on.
