• Fear of Holes

    Well. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? While I didn’t intend for there to be such a long pause after my last post, as the saying goes, life happened. And…

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  • Stockpiling Joy

    Surviving a pandemic is about more than physical health, it’s also about mental health. If you live alone, how do you get through the challenges of isolation? And what if…

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  • Weird Words and Intriguing Idioms

    English is wacky. (And wonderful?)

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  • Pandemic Playlist

    A collection of seemingly random items forms a pandemic playlist of the last few months.

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  • Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

    In which I read a roller-coaster account of my high-school grad night, direct from my teenage diary.

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  • Empathy

    I’ve been thinking a lot about empathy lately. You can express empathy in different ways – with words, gestures, or even a caring look in your eyes, as your brow…

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