life
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Man, I Feel Like a Woman Today. I’m in the Xennial generation—the microgeneration that saw streetlights signal dinnertime just as The Oregon Trail came into our computer vans. We have the strength and blase of our Gen X sisters and the emotional intelligence of the elder Millennials. We don’t complain. We know your weak spots.…
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I used to think I rejected God. But, looking back, it wasn’t God I was rejecting at all. I was rejecting an idea that I had made up in my head based on untruths I told myself out of loneliness. When I was a little girl and starting to make sense of the world, I…
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I wish someone had told me this when I was thirty. I would have been old enough to know there was necessary work to be respectable and elegant, the way I envisioned I would have been by that age. At thirty, I was someone I couldn’t recognize. I was surviving in ways that didn’t make…
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The family business of growing old.
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After decades of skepticism, New Age spirituality, loneliness, and self-destruction, I found peace, community, and faith at 47 through the Catholic Church.
The Spinster's Soliloquy 