House on the Rock

When Joe and I began trying for children, the farthest thought from my mind was that we would lose the baby. I should’ve considered it — it’s a brutally common reality of our fallen world… Read more

The anniversary post I typed last year was marked by left-to-right leaning back and forth, a desperate attempt to stay positioned in front of a rotating fan while sweat splashed on the keyboard. 90 degree… Read more

It was the night before the first day of school when my mom was rushed to the hospital with difficulty breathing. I remember tossing and turning all night, knowing this restlessness would not set me… Read more

We live in an apartment complex built in 1994. The layout features external cement-slab staircases that lead up to the second-story suites. Joe and I just so happen to inhabit an apartment on the second… Read more

Or child. Or, perhaps both. I can’t really think of a day I have dreaded more than Mother’s Day this year. The traumatic, tragic, all-too-fast death of my mom-turned-best friend, bookended by the loss of… Read more

I think back to Mother’s Day a year ago. We ate ham and angel food cake on a Sunday afternoon, everyone clad in pink and green, taking selfies and playing CodeNames while fighting to keep… Read more

It was quite a start to 2024. I had already taken more medication, spent more time on bedrest, been in more hospitals (for myself, anyway), and dealt with more physical pain than all of 2023… Read more

To conclude National Poetry Month, I joined my Creative Writing class in crafting an abecedarian acrostic — a unique pattern of poetry in which the first letter of every line follows the order of the… Read more

December 1. December 1. That was the date playing over and over in my head. I’ll take a pregnancy test on December 1.  My period was several weeks late, but I was no stranger to disappointment in the… Read more

(Couldn’t pass up an opportunity to indulge some National Poetry Month shenanigans. I bring to you: an epistolary poem) 🙂 Mom, I looked into the cabinets of my classroom yesterday. I found craft supplies you… Read more