Love gets harder as you go, yes. But it also gets better.
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You carry this with you or you will, one day, carry this with you. Grief is a wound and none of us go unbruised.
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You do not know the weight of the things you carry until you are able to put them down.
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I had that car for exactly half of my life; through college, grad school, five states, my first solo road trip, countless boyfriends, endless stoplight dance parties, one husband, two babies, one house, and a thousand past lives and versions of myself.
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there are pieces of my life scattered all over these places
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Brandon and I had been trying for a baby for almost a year when I got pregnant. The faint pink line appeared on the pregnancy test on a sunny Saturday in September, three weeks after we moved to Maryland.
By Tuesday, I was peeing blood.
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The idea of the move to DC was not easy for me, and the first month here has been difficult.
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A Southern thing: in the space between spring and summer, while the heat creeps closer and it rains all the time, the magnolia trees start their show.
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Your local newspaper, it turns out, is vitally connected to the health of your community, in more ways than you might think.
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I am stressed out and burned out and tired almost all of the time.
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I just felt the world needed to see these.
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Below is a post about my new year's resolutions, or lack thereof, which I finished writing and then didn't post because most of it is about books so I thought I needed to go take some artful photos of the stacks of books all around my house. And then I didn't do that, because I have a job and a life and, it turns out, not a lot of motivation to take artful photos of the stacks of books around my house.
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I cooked a lot — mashed potatoes, baked praline sweet potatoes, buttermilk cornbread, deep-dish apple pie — but I don't do food photography (everything looks disgusting no matter how hard I try), so you'll just have to trust me on that one.
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One whole year of being Brandon’s wife.
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Dealing with depression is exhausting and a lot of work and the problem, ultimately, is that even after you do all of the work and all of the dealing, it still never really goes away.
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