Hard Things

Brain Dump + Blog Break

I’m writing this just before midnight on a Sunday because I can’t get to sleep.

I had a whole week of blog posts scheduled (hooray!), but I’ve moved them all back to drafts and will…

Update: Home + Tired + Grateful

I spent all day Friday supporting my parents at the hospital. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, I got up at 2:30 am to help meet a need. Sunday morning (this time it…

Friday Update: The ER Edition

Hey friends. I had a long, typical Happy Things Friday post all ready to go live this morning and then life threw me a bit of a curveball.

One of my parents recently had a…

Hard Things
Aug, 28, 2026
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Not a Crisis, Exactly — But It Is Another Snow Day

I don’t generally post twice in one day, but sometimes things pile up on my proverbial chest and need to be unloaded promptly.

Today is one of those days.

When I write angsty posts, I sometimes…

Hard Things, Life, Misadventures, Parenting, Personality Insights
Dec, 15, 2025
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Happy Things Friday: 29 August

It feels like all too often we reach the end of a week and there’s something tragic that has touched people we know and love. I’ve been struggling to find the right words for…

This is Not a Happy Things Post

Lest you think my life is one big Happy Things Friday montage, rest assured — there’s always stuff happening behind the scenes. Some of it’s bloggable, some of it’s…not. (When SHU and I had…

Hard Things, Life
Aug, 07, 2025
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Happy (and Hard) Things Friday: 9 May

This week was not my favourite. Nothing objectively terrible happened, but it felt like walking around with pebbles in my shoes. (For people I care about, it was more like giant boulders.)

If you’ll allow…