Time

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The Sacred: How Time Travelling Can Show Us What We Already Have to Be Grateful For

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It can be a terrifying to realize that holding onto the things we love is like grasping water that just keeps running through our hands – fruitless. They will change, and eventually all of it will go.

But this doesn’t have to strike us with fear of what we’ll lose – instead it can be this insanely profound gift.

Because how holy and sacred is all this stuff we actually have today, right?

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Grief, Dogs, and Babies: What a Farting Dog Taught Me About Missing My Mom

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My mom called me the night that she died.

She left me a voicemail and said she was looking forward to seeing me, and asked what time would I be over?

When I checked it from a coffee shop that night, I rolled my eyes: why did she think I was coming over?

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These are NOT the Best Years of Your Life

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People looooove to tell you that “these are the best years of your life” when you’ve just had a baby.

They also tell you that it “goes by so fast, cherish every moment,” and yada yada insert well-meaning advice and nostalgia that basically makes me start to panic here.

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What an Old Yearbook Can Teach Us About Making the Most of Our Time and Life

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As I turned the pages and read the stories, I felt like I retrospectively got to know people at a budding time in their lives. The jokesters, the artists, the poets, the jocks.

Lives that have long since played out: people whose fate is now sealed in time.

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