lonely

One feeling comes up regularly as I process the election results: loneliness. I think a lot of people don’t consider the safety and well-being of their neighbors. I think a lot of people don’t worry about the effect they have on others. It’s just hard to absorb, for me, because I obsess about these things. […]

Autumn

The juniors want to do “walking TAPS.” This sounds ominous, but isn’t: TAPS is total and perfect silence, our ritual for beginning class. I didn’t invent it, I took it, and the way I do it, I put on a video with some soothing image and relatively soothing music (though sometimes if it’s a bit […]

to the quick

Teeth are not bones. Despite being a common part of the skulls you’ve seen, bones can mend, and teeth cannot. Why? I wondered as I sat down to write about my most recent dental adventure. Yes, in my summer of first world problems, after a lovely weekend float trip, peacefully drifting down the Meramec River […]

pink carnations

All my siblings have mental health hurdles, but one of them has a worser case than the rest of us. This led to me being suddenly disinvited from an anticipated luxurious staycation around the same time as the first dead birthday of a friend. I’m kind of proud of that sentence, although it’s for me, […]