Tag: friends
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Bite-Sized Pieces
TOPIC PROBLEMS When I’m trying to write weekly blog posts, there’s a lot of pressure to think of topics. Typically, the more I write, the more topics I can think of, and the trouble is capturing them down rather than drumming one up in the first place. But sometimes there are so (SO) many words…
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How Much Do You Love Me?
How much do you love me? Every day, I ask this question—I think we all do. We want to know. How much am I loved? How big and how high is the love that my people feel for me? And the answer can’t be just words. It’s not enough to say, “To the moon and…
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The Story Behind Violindy
SOME SPOILER-FREE BACKSTORY Hello! Maybe you’ve heard…I have a book coming out in seven days! Honestly, it’s wild. After two years of working on it, to be a week from y’all being able to read it? I’m not even sure I have words for this feeling. So, I’ll borrow a phrase from my roommate: “What…
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The Great Road Trip
THE GREAT ROAD TRIP Fourteen years ago today, I was on my way home from The Great Road Trip. In 2010, through a combination of circumstances I will never really understand, my friend Kylie and I both managed to take two weeks off work to go on a road trip across the country. I drove…