Two things can be true at once. This was something my therapist told me on Thursday while I was telling her about my couple’s therapist. (Yes, I have become that person.)
The couple’s counselor, who we will call Penny, seemed great the first two times I
Recently, when I’m walking up the stairs or folding laundry, a Joan Didion quote plays through my mind. My head is a jumble of words, and for periods of times, certain ones get stuck.
I’ve heard it said that we get songs stuck in our head
It’s been a weirdly calm week. What I mean is, I’ve been calm.
Wednesday morning, for example. I dropped the girls off at daycare. Then I went to the grocery store, the bank, then CVS. When I was told my prescription wouldn’t be ready
My husband has a theory.
His theory, why we’re fighting, is because I’m a difficult woman. That whatever rage he has is warranted because I’m no walk in the park.
I tell him he has never been married to another woman, so he has
Well, 2025 is off with a bang. You’d think the universe would give it a break, but no, it’s gotta keep pushing…
A lot has happened since that hopeful December 30th newsletter. I managed to survive the twelve days (now seventeen) of closed daycare, RSV, the
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Writers & Lovers follows Casey–a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist–in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed–or untoyed with–by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.
Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives.
Anxiety is defined as being ” a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome”. I often felt like anxiety is more like a fake friend who doesn’t let you do and enjoy a lot of things. One day, I decided to write her a story. A story of goodbye. ” […]
I know the presence of Light outside by its outline formed against the door of my room, a black rectangle, erect lengthwise with Golden border. It feebly reaches out to me, I surmise, its faded shade splattered on my books distinguishing their collective contour arranged against the left of my door to which I never […]
Two Words My grandmother’s name is Anna. It’s a derivative of our family’s saint name Antonio. Antonio, Anna, Antonetta, Antoinette; which is my middle name and my legacy to pass on. Anna has dementia. It’s genetic. It is what is slowly taking her, while we watch. It isn’t the fact that death is holding my […]
