I'm cookie dough. I'm not done baking. I'm not finished becoming who ever the hell it is I'm gonna turn out to be. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next thing, and maybe one day, I turn around and realize I'm ready. I'm cookies. And then, you know, if I want someone to eat m- or enjoy warm, delicious, cookie me, then that's fine ( Read more... )

Took a first round of boxes to the post office this afternoon. It felt amazing, things going away. That freeing, weightless feeling makes me wonder if I shouldn't have just gotten rid of all those things ( Read more... )

Coworker said that this morning. A compliment on the physical, but it's easy to start overthinking it. So I checked in on the physical. Down 17 pounds since early October. ( That's a thing. )

Over 100lbs of books seems excessive.

Let's back up.

Tyler took me box-shopping this morning, and Heather and Jess came over tonight. With their beyond-amazing help, I am now almost entirely packed.

There are some odds and ends. The exact contents of the carry-on has not been finalized. The pictures haven't gone into picture cartons. I'm sure ( Read more... )

I know this is going to feel fast. I knew this was going to feel fast. Still not prepared for quite how fast. Phone is ringing off the hook a little. People want to know what now and what next. It's good. I'm profoundly lucky to have so much support. But I'm wondering those things too ( Read more... )

This year, as a 28-year-old, I will do people the courtesy of saying 'No ( Read more... )

Donated four boxes of mom's books on Friday. I couldn't throw them away. Tyler has grown unsentimental about books, an obvious professional necessity, but still hard for me. He offered a few times to toss them, and I just couldn't. So there they've sat since last December in boxes against our wall. Waiting for a used bookstore trip. Waiting for me ( Read more... )

Mount Holyoke gave her an award at graduation. It arrived yesterday, after many postal and communications hangups. ( Photos: The Helen Warren Smith Award for Leadership )