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    My Last Not-Yet-40 Birthday(Post)

    I turn 39 today. Eek! I am not generally a person who dreads my birthday. As a youngest child who has also always looked young, I actually really appreciate aging. It makes me happy to gain experien ...

    A Material World(Post)

    This Instagram thing has continued to rankle me because, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, it was once my favorite app, and the fact that it is doubling down on its attempt to become a rival to T ...

    In Praise of Imperfect Mothers(Post)

    With kids at home nonstop these days, I can’t help but reflect on my parenting — mostly wondering if I’m doing it all wrong. Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels this ...

    Poetry by Post: Volume 1, Issue 5(Post)

    What's been especially interesting to me about doing these Poetry by Post mailings back to back to back is how variable the experience is. One month, the essay is particularly hard to write. Another ...

    How I Fell Back in Love with Reading(Post)

    My twins, Eliza and Hazel, are in the golden age of reading right now. They haul books home from the library by the dozen and devour titles quickly and swap back and forth and eagerly tell me about ...

    Patterned Spring(Post)

    We've been super busy reorganizing and purging and dusting off the shelves at the shop that I decided it was high time, too, to dust off this here blog! Last year, I was so preoccupied with getting P ...

    Camp Postscript(Post)

    Summer just doesn't feel like summer--even as an adult!--without a nod to the ritual of camp. Hiking for miles. Learning all the silly trail songs. Drifting in canoes and feeling sunshine positively ...

    Not So New! But Improved!(Post)

    "Growing pains" is a phrase I used to always associate with the young. Bodies bursting out of their bounds as small kids expand and unfurl in miraculous ways. The heartaches of lost friendships or un ...

    The Great Postage Puzzle(Post)

    Growing up, my brother and sister and I would play a game that only rural, bored-out-of-their-brains kids could dream up. It was called Puzzle Factory, and the basic premise was that we completed p ...

    Germination(Post)

    One of the things we've been most excited to work on, since moving, is establishing a garden. My husband is gung-ho about growing our food, and there is, in my opinion, no earthly experience quite li ...

    Poetry by Post, 4.0(Post)

    Before I opened my shop, I wanted to be an English professor. Not just wanted, but did all the things. Took the classes. Wrote a dissertation. Defended it. Applied for a small handful of jobs. So suf ...

    Immaterial Goals in a Material World(Post)

    Last week, I wrote some entirely transparent sentiments about running a retail shop in a society that is debt-ridden and full of disposable goods. It's a tough thing to admit because I don't for one ...