More Beautiful Than Necessary

Life has never been normal

Gird up your loins and get serious

Sep 13 • 

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Grape Cough Syrup and other things that don't fix the problem

Does everything have to be a lesson?

Sep 7 • 

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10

August 2025

The Doerner Fir is on fire

A tribute to the things we value

Aug 28 • 

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4

Is there any point in hurrying?

Moving slow

Aug 13 • 

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July 2025

We don't need the internet to doomscroll

but a little shock and awe can snap us out of it

Jul 14 • 

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11

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June 2025

Tell me how great your kids/spouse/dog/friends are

A quick word on bragging

Jun 20 • 

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17

4

Update Shmupdate

I can only tell you what's happened so far

Jun 14 • 

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May 2025

Favorite Things

(Don't tell the other Things)

May 30 • 

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Grandmas don't wear holey jeans

On turning forty-nine, resisting some tropes, and leaning in to others

May 15 • 

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Making the cut

(If I had a dollar for every time I've written about habits and routines...yet here I go again.)

May 5 • 

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April 2025

Mom guilt, Robin Hood, and reading magazines like a grandma

Part III of a discussion with Aimee Guest on Creativity and Motherhood

Apr 11 • 

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March 2025

Making plans, praying prayers, and throwing your life up in the air

Or, "I am out with lanterns looking for myself," as Dickinson humorously noted

Mar 14 • 

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