Quick Write

Months, now. Months! Months since I've written anything here, since I've become a mother, since I've had the time (really) to sit down and write something.  Oops, baby is crying. Brb.  Ok. Thanks, technology... I'm writing on my phone while the baby is nursing / falling back asleep.  What, oh what to write about? Do …

On Waiting

I've been hearing a lot of "I can't wait!" From friends, from family, from myself. And it's habit for most of us -- it's such a colloquial phrase that we use to convey excitement, most of us hardly think before using it. But as I've gotten bigger and bigger, my belly more and more pregnant, …

What Depression Has Taught Me About Motherhood

Early on in my pregnancy, I devoured snarky mommy blogs. There was (and still is) something satisfying about reading other womens' stories of sarcasm-in-parenthood: triumphant in their realism, unflinching in their dual identities of devotion and "what the fuck, this is crazy." Proof that motherhood does not come with a shiny veneer of bliss and …

School Lunches

I was a public school lunch kid. It wasn’t a stigma. I just didn’t bring my lunch to school. I’m not sure when I realized that other kids consistently brought lunches with them, or when I understood that I *didn’t* have someone packing my lunch in the morning (or the evening before). If I wanted …

This Blog’s Identity is All Over the Place

Since starting this blog in response to my divinity school education ("How do I make sense of all this theological stuff?" "What can I do to put my thoughts out into the world?" "What's the meaning of all this?!"), I've had many types of posts and many false starts and stops.  As a result, I'm …