first me redux: 40/365

first me redux: 40/365

Because of the dailiness of these posts, I can’t give them unlimited amounts of time, which is what some of them need. Yesterday’s post was a little scattered but this morning became more clear. In the interest of full disclosure, I just edited #39 (and...
first me: 39/365

first me: 39/365

Despite the number of years I’ve been a mother and a wife, I hardly ever think of myself that way. I am always those things after I am me. Even when I needed to stop practicing law in order to stay sane, I never thought of myself as a mother. I was always first...
playing with books: 38/365

playing with books: 38/365

In Falling Through Space, Ellen Gilchrist wrote, We should get up one morning and take all our books and put them in a pile in the middle of the floor and start playing with them. I love playing with books–sitting on the floor in a library, in a bookstore, or in...