Mercury is in Retrograde

Mercury is in retrograde. I don’t know what that means. I mean, I know what it literally means. It means that right now when you look at Mercury through a telescope it looks like it’s orbiting backwards. Or something like that. I don’t know what Mercury being in retrograde means for me and the universe, […]

My Greek Chorus

Let’s talk about the bad days. The kind of days when you feel like you’re living a stranger’s life and you see baby animals everywhere you look and it seems like everyone in the world who has a uterus is pregnant. And then there’s you. Coming to terms with my childless future does not mean […]

Books. No Babies.

The last time I went to Barnes & Noble was the day my husband got his second vaccine. We stopped to peruse on our way home. We ended up walking out of there with just one book, Anthony Bourdain’s final memoir/travel book.  There’s a lot in that paragraph. I’m going to break it down. The […]

Categories

Today I created categories for my blog. I didn’t like it. Labelling and planning. Yuck. As someone with anxiety, the organization and categories and neatly lined up ideas makes me feel very content. Also as someone with anxiety, the thought of creating a blog post that doesn’t fit nicely into a category makes me feel […]