Present Over Perfect
If this journey has been the peeling of an onion, layer by layer, or the un-nesting of Russian dolls, shedding ...
about. There were so many things I left to other people to feel strongly about, so much so that ...
table later—and while I stir, I’ll talk on the phone with one of the pastors at our church. I wouldn’t ...
how our weird little ideas are, so obvious to someone else but impossible to detangle ourselves. I saw mys ...
these docks and benches and flaking chairs because so much of my life was spent here. Mayb ...
Heart and Yes I remember the buzz of the needle from my first and second tattoos—that metallic rattle, ...
It’s about God’s love, about the revolutionary and foreign idea that I am loved by God, no matter ...
changing everything. I can rest. I can fail. I can admit need and weakness. I can exhale. It’s changing ...
where the rest of the women were. And then Bryson yelled after me, just as I was turning away, “Shauna! ...
yes, yes. Always yes. And so, those two: the red heart and the word yes, the heart on my writing hand, ...
French toast, and I had an extra spicy Bloody Mary and a club sandwich, and we sat so happily on that fo ...
Ballard Locks Aaron and I are firecrackers, both of us—deep-feeling, mercurial, creative, passionate. We ...
the first day of that new job, I met Aaron. I’d actually met him one time before—I watched his band play ...
No depth, no darkness, no beautiful weird complexity, no questions. I can barely even type that now. It ...
than a blip—we’d add on a day to the work trip, or get a sitter and have a quick dinner out. And then ...
themselves when there’s an expanse of distance in a marriage, when there’s a vulnerability. So we talke ...
New Fuel I’m walking the last steps of this journey—not the life-living of it, but the story-telling. I spoke wi ...
fuels to power your life, it’s like jumping off a cigarette boat onto a sailboat: disorientingly qui ...
slightly unnerving amount of time. It’s winter, and I find myself utterly not interested in finishing. ...
growing. My appreciation for a well-crafted sentence or a perfectly chosen word is only rising, a ...
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