Photos & feelings.
I have been meaning to write something outside the context of work emails and thought a very belated recap of 2025 would be a good starting place. I’ve also been meaning to take note of more positive things, so that’s what I tried to do with this list. 2025 looked a little like: 0 Dom…
Years. Plural! So believable and unimaginable at the same time. At this time a year ago, I had just returned from Europe in the midst of an extended leave from work (the goal of which was still unclear) and I was feeling pretty unmoored. I was (am) very busy (all the time) doing fun things…
I’ll reflect on the new year soon, but I wanted to start it off with practicing a bit of gratitude (the scientists say it is good for your health). This Christmas, my mom wasn’t able to give gifts in her usual fashion. She loved to set up “Santa’s Workshop” each year, wrapping parcels for many…
It feels like a dramatic title, but I also can’t conjure something up that feels appropriate for a subject that is dramatic for me: My mom passed away eight days ago. My mom was extremely generous but also a bit of a mystery, keeping the cards life dealt her close to her chest – especially…
I looked back at 8 drafts I began writing over the last 2.5 years, which told a somewhat funny story of looking ahead to the hope of a new decade with 2020, intention-setting for that new decade, shock over COVID, dismay at how the year actually unfolded, how to search for a job in the…
I ordered prescription glasses online for the first time and I learned some valuable lessons!
A little over one year ago, I decided I needed to get uncomfortable to see things more clearly.
That bittersweet moment finally arrived: The 2018 Pumpkin Challenge has come to a close…