written November 2022 In August, I deleted Instagram and Facebook for an entire month. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, sparked mostly by a discussion led by Ashlee Gadd in her…
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written November 2022 Have you ever quit doing something that was really good for you? Maybe you used to exercise every morning, but at some point you had a busy…
All over my social media feeds, I see people rushing toward fall. They’re buying fall decor—pumpkins and fall leaves and all things orange and brown. They’re posting shopping hauls with…
At the beginning of last year, I set a challenge for myself of learning to keep house from Victorian homemaking books (a surprisingly prolific genre, as it turns out). I…
So many of the songs we hear around Christmas time are cheery. From the secular “Holly Jolly Christmas” to the classic “Joy to the World”, most of the carols are…
Content warning: this post talks about pregnancy loss. I’m reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. I somehow managed to major in English literature without encountering spoilers…
Six months ago, we went to church, in person, for the first time since the pandemic began. For me it had been fifteen months—fifteen months since I sat in a…
When I tell people I majored in English, they generally cringe. Very few people, it seems, enjoyed their high school English class. They feel they were forced to read books…
I’ve always known I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I can think of no better career than to be the one to shape the earliest experiences of my children’s…
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been writing about Victorian homemaking and doing my best to put nineteenth-century homemaking advice into practice in my own home. It’s been a…