Marie thought there was a lot of ideas her work was incapable of exploring: mathematical axioms; the eight minutes and 48 seconds George Floyd spent on the ground, dying.
July 23, 2021
We made the mistake of reading the Ferber book which advocates letting your child cry themselves to sleep. It was hideous. No grace. No laughter.
July 22, 2021
He is in the bathroom getting ready for bed. I hear the water running from the faucet, then it is turned off, then it runs again, then it is off, on, off, on and off for 15 minutes.
July 21, 2021
I haven’t lived in that house for 27 years. I wish I could better trust the reliability of my memories from inside it, but I know which memories are from before and after grief moved in.
July 20, 2021
I thought about how even though I couldn’t see my family physically, I’ve spoken to them more in the last year than I had the previous two years combined.
July 19, 2021
This is a letter to my anxiety, and to the morning of Dec. 6, 2013, when I think that something is not quite right. It was still early––too early, except what I mean is there was no sun up yet, no blue walls, no shower or warm spot.ve
July 18, 2021
She looked around her pink and white bedroom. Pink: her favorite color. Her journal, also pink, with a picture of a pretty little girl on it, surrounded by flowers.
July 16, 2021
People call this “Glamping” because we are in cabins with indoor bathrooms, not tents and outhouses, but there is nothing “glam” about it.
July 14, 2021
By Katherine Flannery Dering I spent days getting up early and clicking on various websites, eager to get my…
July 12, 2021
The words “I don’t feel the same” were never said, I was just left with silence. For someone who constantly has music, silence is deafening.
July 11, 2021
Blake was four years older and he understood what that meant, recognized that being older was more a duty than an inconvenience.
July 9, 2021
Maybe it’s just the quarantine fifteen. I wouldn’t know because I haven’t weighed myself to get the actual number.
July 7, 2021
The crazy thing about COVID is that it upends the promise I made myself years ago to try to keep my anxieties and fears from infecting my kids.
July 5, 2021
If you want proof that evolution is dangerous, all you have to do is parent a teenager. Or teach one. Or just choose one out of the crowd and watch her move through the world.
July 3, 2021