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This is the first year I can remember, ever, when I did not feel angst about the short days, the early darkness. This was the first...

What have you locked away? What have you stolen from yourself and hidden so that you wouldn’t long for anything wild, anything unknowable...

All the old fears gather around the table. Some of them are defiant, daring me to say something. Some only look down, trying the old...

I’m being cozy with myself. Curious, and gentle. Quiet, on this day without work or much for obligations. I dropped my son off at school....

You are the only one– always. Not in sadness or despair, but in strength. In proof of living. In the next step and the next. There is no...

I wanted to believe I’d be married forever, for my whole life, for all the lifetimes to come– because that made it feel like God exists:...

What is the point of a friendship, of any relationship? I walked behind– and sometimes in front of– my dad today on the Cascade, thinking...

This Swedish Pancake recipe was on our fridge (on yellow legal paper) my entire childhood– so that if we had a babysitter Saturday night...

photo by John David Dela-Peri What is Magic? It is fierceness and generosity. It is one hundred children sitting cross-legged on the...