Every year, holidays come and go. Every year, people decorate their houses and yards for various of the holidays. And every year, I drive past hundreds and hundreds of these decked-out residences. And yet not until this year did this particular symbolic revelation occur to me. Are the relevant phenomena more pronounced this year — or is there something in…
Tag: joy
Melty Shakes, Dirty Shirts, and Slow Writing
(I was going to write this post yesterday, but April was crying and wouldn’t get to sleep, so I couldn’t. You’ll see just how fitting… or perhaps ironic? that fact is…) Every afternoon, I make myself a yogurt shake. Blend 3/4 cups of plain yogurt, 1/4 cup milk, a packet of stevia, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, a tablespoon of stevia-sweetened…
Are You Happy?
It’s been a long time since I’ve sat down to write here–or really to write anything. While I was pregnant, I was having so many issues that I couldn’t sit up for longer than a few minutes at a time, so that really put a damper on my computer use. Then I had my baby, on July 5th, a beautiful…
You Look Different Than I Remember, Old Yeller
Or, I don’t like sad stories anymore. It’s weird. I used to love sad stories. I owned the Doctor Who quote “Sad is happy for deep people.” Where the Red Fern Grows was my delight. The Fault in Our Stars? Yes please. And just give me a tissue and I’d be ready to spend an afternoon weeping over the end…