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Mar 17, 2021

In Praise of an Awful Time

Some days my life is reduced to a pile of tiny clothing, and all of it is inside-out. It will take me hours, I am certain, to pull all of these sleeves back through themselves, to flip a thousand tiny neck holes back through a thousand tiny waist holes. On…

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In Praise of an Awful Time
In Praise of an Awful Time

Feb 11, 2021

The Second

I was just a few weeks pregnant in this picture with my second son and I felt boundless, eternal, as if being pulled by my own private star. I kissed my toddler good night and held him, we held him — his inevitable sibling and me. I put on a…

Motherhood

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The Second
The Second

Feb 8, 2021

Seattle Backyard Gardeners Will Save Us All

Last year, I joined a Facebook group for Seattle backyard gardeners. It was completely aspirational. We recently moved, and for the first time in my life I’ve become responsible for a small square of yard. …

Seattle

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Seattle Backyard Gardeners Will Save Us All
Seattle Backyard Gardeners Will Save Us All

Jul 13, 2020

Is Tomorrow Just a Word?

Tonight I took a bath with three stray plastic balls, the kind you use for ball pits. They weigh, altogether, about as much as a penny, but I was too tired to take them out. I watched them float aimlessly together from one corner of the tub to the other…

Time

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Is Tomorrow Just a Word?
Is Tomorrow Just a Word?

Apr 6, 2020

Palm Sunday in a Pandemic

Today, like so many millions of people around the world, my family celebrated Palm Sunday under quarantine. Of all the tiny griefs of the pandemic, knowing I wouldn’t be able to attend Holy Week services at my church has been an especially achey one for me. Holy Week is the…

Palm Sunday

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Palm Sunday in a Pandemic
Palm Sunday in a Pandemic

Mar 30, 2020

For Arsenio, Under Quarantine

Quarantine

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For Arsenio, Under Quarantine
For Arsenio, Under Quarantine

Nov 28, 2018

What the Mystics Know

Poetry

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What the Mystics Know
What the Mystics Know

Jun 13, 2018

A Theory

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A Theory
A Theory

Mar 28, 2018

Whitney

Yesterday, my son heard “I Will Always Love You” for the first time. He’s nearly two, and likes to spend some evenings standing at the window watching birds come into the garden and yelling, “Birds! Birds!” When they fly away, he often asks softly, in a lamenting tone, “more birds…

Whitney Houston

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Whitney
Whitney

Mar 15, 2018

Slug

I live in a 110-year-old Victorian flat in North Beach, San Francisco. It’s literally made of redwood trees which is very romantic. Of course, being that old, it has many quirks. The doors have warped over the years and there’s a big gap at the bottom of our back door…

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Slug
Slug
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