Winter has come
Winter has finally arrived. While later than usual, I still welcome the stillness such wild weather brings. Slipping on seasonal habits and familiar sensations like clothes brought of out storage. My daily walks by Lake Michigan are now deeply solitary, most folk avoiding the icy sea spray and blistering burn of thighs chaffed by frozen … Continue reading
Serendipity
A new year so often signifies a fresh start; a clean slate; a second chance. But I find starting over easy, the promise of new adventures exhilarating. It’s the staying which can be hardest. I opened so many new cans of worms last year it would be simplest (and shallowly gratifying) to throw them all … Continue reading
A smattering of autumn
I am a creature of beginnings. Of mornings and hello!s and fresh starts. Of new places and new combinations. The excitement of fresh projects and somedays always outweighs the pedantry of proofreading, don’t they? But in the final sigh of summer, in a year with a great deal of New already, I’m calling time out. … Continue reading
Standing Astride
In the slowing time of PMS I find myself often retracing my steps. Going back over trodden ground, following my own bread crumbs home. I think of it as a calibration; a tune up. It serves as a useful guidebook when I go off-roading or get lost. Today I found a younger self who wrote … Continue reading
Soft summer mornings
By now, dear readers, you know I’m part-selkie; that my quality of life is directly proportional to the distance between me and my nearest bodies of water; and that there are some magnificent things about our neighborhood beach. I like my predictability in these things. Knowing what matters makes it much easier to prioritize. Knowing … Continue reading
Things I Like — Social Media
Confession: Some days scrolling the endless supply of updates is plain old boring. Humblebrag: Some days housekeeping for your feeds and maintaining your “Expert” status is humdrum. Truth: But some days brim with genuine connection, shared moments, and emotion contagion that make it totally worth while. In case you’d like to delve into the mishmash … Continue reading
Things I Like — Sonja Thomsen
After success with free concerts, and my eternal love of free museums (fueled by my need to put pretty things in my eyeballs daily), I popped into DePaul University’s Art Museum. The semi-truck turned giant-pinhole-camera photographs were neat. But Sonja Thomsen‘s arresting explorations of light, prisms and rays stole the show. There was a large … Continue reading
Things I Like — Virginia Woolf
If you told Dumas-loving-14-year-old me she’d ever be into the Hemmingway-Iceberg theory of modern novels and unspoken things she’d give you the squinty-two-eye. If you promised tightly-wound college me she’d indulge in meandering, obtuse sentences as long as the night which go nowhere at all (and that’s beautiful) she’d laugh derisively. If you tempted the … Continue reading
Diving In
Once upon a time I had a life I no longer loved and I ditched it. I ditched its ass hard. Great, wondrous things came of that flying leap into god-knows-what. Or rather, great, wondrous voids descended in quick succession and over many years, and in them I continued to find myself huddled in the … Continue reading
Que Sera Sara? 