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Book Collecting
I used to be a book collector. I started collecting books in high school. In college, when everyone else was selling back their textbooks, I was the girl who would sort through the “free” bin at the university bookstore and collect all the textbooks that couldn’t be resold.When I moved to rural Louisiana to join Teach For America, I almost left my books behind. I was only taking my car and what I could fit inside. At the very last minute, I start shoving individual books into the crevices. I managed to get all of them. I couldn’t bear to be without them.
As the years passed, I … Read More
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Reducing Nasty Chemicals in My Life
Reading the recent New York Times article about working on marriage (well, I have to confess I’m only on page five), has reminded me that Matt and I want to solidify our marriage before we jump into the sea of parenthood.We started the process by taking a marriage class back in August, but we haven’t done much since then. We’ve been trying to enroll in therapy together for a while, but we haven’t gotten around to finding someone.
It’s so easy to skip straight to the baby stuff. I only meant to read a book or two about preparing one’s body for conception, but I quickly realized that pretty … Read More
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Taking the Road Less Traveled
I need books in my life. I really do. I need to be reading a book for fun in order to live a truly rounded, whole existence.
I know this about myself and yet I don’t always cooperate with my needs. When I get busy at work, my reading slips quietly off my agenda for the day (or week or month!). It’s sad.
But I’m on vacation! And I am reconnecting with my dear friend, Books. I’m reading Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Yes, I know I am behind all the other readers in America…) It’s a memoir about living an inauthentic life (in her case, it was in … Read More
