adj. struck by the poignant strangeness of other people’s homes, which smell and feel so different than your own—seeing the details of...

adj. longing to disappear completely; to melt into a crowd and become invisible, so you can take in the world without having to take part...

n. the lulling sound of a running dishwasher, whose steady maternal shushing somehow puts you completely at peace with not having...

On August 14, 2024 my grandpa, Ronald Erickson, passed away peacefully at home. My grandma, his wife of 72 years was beside him. The...

n. a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head—a crisp analysis, a devastating comeback, a cathartic...

adj. feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you’ve...

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Word Number 4 Scabulous Part 1: Between Living and Dreaming Seeing the World as it is, and as it could be Definition Adj. proud of a...

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I was recently introduced to an incredibly interesting book called “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig via a TEDTalk. It’s...

Fragile. What is fragile? It is the word written on packages tossed around by the post office. It is what we use to describe things that...

My family has a tradition of eating artichokes on Thanksgiving, but it is not necessarily the consumption of them that is the important...

It’s already almost two weeks into 2022, as the days fly by I find myself thinking that I should have already figured out how to be a...

I’ve recently been playing a lot of Christmas carols on my flute, I know most of them by heart because I grew up singing them, Jingle...

I do want kids, the matter is a mixed bag of emotions in my chest, but logistics aside I can finally say with confidence that someday I...

I am terrified of being lazy. Or rather, of other people thinking I am lazy. This obsession started way back in middle school with the...

As children I’m sure most of us remember the saying “step on a crack break your mother’s back” always said in a sing-song voice despite...