March 2021

I can understand why wisdom is tied to the accumulation of lived experience, if only because I look back on some previous versions of me and think, oh God. This feeling can mostly be explained by the fact I was a heady combination of young, naïve, arrogant and – often – as pissed as the […]

I wrote the above as a reminder to myself a few weeks into maternity leave, not long before Ruby showed up. I’d been writing notes throughout pregnancy so I could remember it when I wasn’t pregnant anymore. This note anticipated that one day some months ahead, somewhat ground down by motherhood, I might contemplate my