Category: Reflect
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Wedding Reflections
I was going to do this post on my four year anniversary, but then I got nasty sick and didn’t actually celebrate my anniversary or do anything at all except be semiconscious and hallucinate Teletubbies dancing on my ceiling. So, I’m posting it the day my husband and I actually celebrate our four year anniversary.…
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The Imitation Game: Dressing to be Somebody Else
I’ve been impressionable my entire life. I liked to think I was above commercials, advertisements, and trends, and for the most part, I was. But give me a plucky book heroine, a television character who had their shit together, or a celebrity with utter confidence and I was a sucker. I wanted what they had…
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Planning to be Perfect
I like to think I’m a planner person. That is, I’ve gone through most of my life with the idea that if I bought the right kind of planner–organized in a certain way with the correct categories–then I would have no choice but to start great habits and have an awesome life. Yes, this was…
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The Woods: a Frenemy for Life
I was born in the trees. Not literally, I slipped screaming into this world in a hospital in Brainerd, Minnesota, but when I reflect on my childhood I see towering pines, birch, and poplars as far as the eye could see (though, given how short I am, that’s not a tall order. Pun intended). Our…
Babbling Brooks 