letter writing

letter writing

  One of my goals for this year is to send more letters. Call me old fashioned (which I occasionally am), but there is something so wonderful about both writing and receiving letters. The most mundane observations about life seem thoughtful and interesting when...
in charlottesville, virginia

in charlottesville, virginia

I am a mother, and I live in Charlottesville, Virginia. These are two unrelated facts. // I spend a lot of time these days holding my baby, when he will stay still long enough to let me. He’s becoming less and less convinced that he is a baby, learning to walk,...
moving day

moving day

We’re packing up and leaving yet another apartment. This was our seventh address is not-quite-six years of marriage, and since the new home we’re heading to is a summer sublease, we’ll be moving at least one more time before the year is done. Between...
five years

five years

We celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary last week. If you count from when we started dating, then in a couple months we will have been together for ten years. This is where, I think, I am supposed to list “five things I have learned in five years of marriage” or...
rambles (with purpose)

rambles (with purpose)

We’re officially in our new apartment, in our new town, with our mix of old and new goals and dreams and furniture. We’ve finished all our planned travel, so these summer days are more about settling in, getting to know friends and exploring the parks and markets and...
longwood gardens

longwood gardens

The first few months that I lived in Philadelphia were a mess. I moved because B. was there, just starting the second year of his PhD. I had a plan. I found a place to live, a cute old brownstone with three other roommates. I was cast in a play that would pay decently...