Stories from home
HELLO | It is sincerely disturbing to be typing here, directly witnessing exactly how long it’s been since I updated this site. A lot has changed since my last post (which was evidently ...
Smile Less
HONOURABLY MENTIONED | I stopped submitting creative work approximately twenty years ago. The why is easy to remember, hard to remember, and boring to talk about. Why does anyone do anything in ...
Sentinel fragments
FRAGMENTS | Are you seeing this? With my thumbs, in the dark, I wrote a first draft of this essay (if it is an essay?) in January, soon after the COVID-19 death toll in the United States crossed ...
The buried, alive
MUSINGS | Another month gone and I’m still buried in it. I have been trying to write more like I talk, or rather, more like the way I talked before parenthood and perpetual exhaustion ...
Go deep
MUSINGS | It’s the end of the year as we know it. I’ve been trying to write about depth — a sort of metaphorical piece (you know I love those) about being in the deep, in the dark places. ...
F2020 ORC – The yellow bathroom (I go back to black)
THE ONE ROOM CHALLENGE | The Yellow Bathroom Revealed! I set my alarm for 6:45 am today. Right around sunrise. My little yellow bathroom gets the best light right at the start of the day. ...
Ministry of the Interior, Open Notebook
F2020 ORC – Something to look forward to?
RAMBLING | Is this about the ORC? About house hunting? About something else entirely? It’s 8:10pm on the night the ORC posts are supposed to go up and I’m lying in bed next to my five year old, ...
F2020 ORC – Champagne wishes, caviar dreams, and cheap wallpaper
DECORATING | Okay, so here we are on week three of the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge and I’m talking cheap wallpaper. And I am feeling poor. I’m not REALLY poor. I mean, I have ...
Burnt
PERSONAL ESSAY | In mid-September, I got a sunburn. My first. My skin — a majority of my skin, the largest of all my organs — reddened and tightened, and the inside of my clothing rasped against ...
F2020 ORC – Golden, but no showers
DIY UPCYCLING | And pondering if gold makes everything better … or not? So here we are on week two! I have done almost nothing since week one except ponder the question of if gold makes ...
F2020 ORC – The Yellow MCM Bathroom begins
DECORATING | The Fall 2020 One Room Challenge (ORC) and … yet another MCM bathroom? Guess who’s back!? Back again!? I am back! Tell a friend! Yep. I did it. I signed up for the ...
Art Department, Signals & Dispatches
Melusine and the sea
STORY | Melusine and The Sea (a wee tale for wee people by Jen Selk) Melusine lived in a little place, overlooking an enormous sea. And she didn’t like it. She was afraid of the water. She ...