• Opinion,  Parenting

    The Conjuring of a Motherhood

    The most prevalent thing in my life right now is motherhood—the texture of it, the joy, the exhaustion. Sometimes it is hard to imagine that there is anything else. Before I had children, I had inklings of a career. I…

  • Farming,  Opinion

    The Unmaking of a Farm

    Have you ever wanted to hold on to something that brought you to tears? Maybe it made you bleed. Perhaps it was dangerous. Or how about this: every day that you did it reminded you of how bloody futile morality…

  • Farming,  Opinion,  Parenting

    The Reality of Catching COVID

    I thought I had dodged it. I was so far removed from the realities of COVID in our country utopia that I could very nearly pretend that it wasn’t a part of my world. When in reality, I think it…