• Small table, iPad, and mug that says writer, because badass isn't a job title
    Writing

    Becoming a writer

    Last week, after a silly exchange with a coworker that involved both of us trying and failing to dredge up basic French phrases from long ago school days, I spent my commute home thinking about eighth grade — the year…

  • People waiting in line to receive vaccine.
    Books,  Photo,  Travel

    March 2021

    No contest highlight of the month: My husband and I got our first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine. The line stretched three and a half blocks when we arrived at the walk-in clinic, and the weather was cold and drizzly,…

  • Books,  Family,  Photo

    February 2021

    What I’m reading February was a month for savoring books, and I read some great ones. In fact, I did something this month I never do: I read the same book — Tana French’s The Searcher — not once, but…