here’s to everyone everywhere in every time who have given lives and hearts and homes and hours and years and aches to this country. god bless you.

i know i should be doing something like packing or throwing out moldy celery, but, i admit it, i’m watching youtube videos. this is the first time i’ve laughed out loud in weeks.

the whole world is splintering. i know i sound dramatic. i feel dramatic. i knew as soon as we moved to ann arbor that we would hardly unpack before it was time to move again. i knew that. i really did know it. so i feel like a big blubbery baby that it’s making me [...]

henry walked down the stairs yesterday. he got to the bottom, put his hands on his hips, and in his voice he uses when he wants to say important things like “water guns are precious” and “i play the trombone,” he turned to me and said, “mom, i’m going to college and you can’t come [...]