It’s spring again! It’s finally here! Every winter, I feel like I forget what it’s like to be warm. It honestly feels like it’s going to be winter forever, and as a person who hates winter and everything to do with coldness, it is a depressing time of year. And then, in what feels like an overnight change of heart, just when I can’t bear it for one more day, the world warms up 30 degrees and all of the trees burst into flowers and I fall in love with DC all over again. Continue reading “Bloom”

One of my favorite books to read at the beginning of the year is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. She and her family move from Arizona to a farm in rural Virginia with the goal of either growing or locally sourcing all of their food for the year. With such a huge undertaking, they have a hard time deciding when to actually begin; when to stop doing things the easy way because that’s how you’ve always gotten by, and it’s how everyone you know gets by, and bite the bullet to do something difficult but worthwhile. For the last half of last year, this is kind of how Kyle and I felt. We were feeling the nagging urge that something had to change, but what and how and when were all up in the air. Last time we felt this way, we moved to Thailand. Thailand was amazing and wonderful and enriching in so many ways, but it always kind of felt like a stopgap. This time our change needed to feel more substantial.

So we applied to the Peace Corps. Continue reading “Asparagus Season”

Man, life has really gotten away from me in the last six months. I had such big plans! This was going to be the year of All Figured Out, “settling down”, feeling like a real adult. And in March I really did think it was all going to go that way. But as I sit writing this, thinking about the last few months… that’s not quite the way things have turned out. Continue reading “Catching Up”