Love gets harder as you go, yes. But it also gets better.
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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 miss the world. (Film and digital, 2016.)
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They are not daydreams and happy endings, but things to be cautious about, to take your time with. He told this to a friend, who shrugged. “You’re right,” she said, “but at some point, that decision is always a leap of faith.”
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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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In the end there was, maybe, something to be said for the process of picking through your past to decide what to keep and what to leave behind.
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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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It was one of the best days of my whole life and one of my favorite things we've ever done together.
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We ate dinner, and drank a lot of wine, and then got on the bus to go back to the resort, at which point Brandon and I got into a very heated argument about Jim Harbaugh.
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North Carolina “snow” did its best to keep us grounded. We escaped anyway.
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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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Someone yesterday asked, "What is it about seasons changing that creates such a strong feeling of sense memory?" It's a handful of things, I think - the shift in the air, the way deep breaths feel differently, the slow churn of the constellations overhead - but whatever the explanation, I feel that way too.
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