After going over my 2022 reading review, I’m not feeling as confident in the quality of this year’s list, despite having reason to read a lot: in 2023 I went back to school to begin doctoral studies and am reading all the time. Whether or not my recap is impressive, I want to share withContinue reading >>
What I read, 2022
The beach, the library, my couch, my bed, planes, trains and automobiles – I read lots of places this year! Between shedding one of my many extra jobs in January and taking classes that encouraged plenty of research, I have had time and reason to have my nose often in a book. Here are aContinue reading >>
Women in Bright Colors
Being dismissed never stops being shocking. Despite experience, expertise and passion in a few different areas, there are still plenty of times that colleagues and acquaintances see me – someone who loves to smile and wear fun clothes and is a woman – as just another “chick singer”. You’d think I’d be used to itContinue reading >>
One note at a time
Yesterday morning I realized I was cracking up. Out running I reached the point of drenched detachment at which I could look at the last few weeks, and it wasn’t pretty. The weight of everything – political vitriol, conspiracy theories, denial of science, and overdue awareness of racial injustice – was keeping me up atContinue reading >>
Deep Breaths
I noticed it for the first time during the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil. Despite being focused on a lot of words and a lot of notes, despite being unnerved by singing to an empty chapel on what would have been one of the most well-attended nights of the Church year, I still registered theContinue reading >>
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