With Grace

At the end of 2013 I interviewed for a job I wanted very badly. The job was an editorial position at a well-known media company, and I’d…

The Beginner

It is a Thursday evening and I am in a yoga class. It is warm in the studio, a steady 85 degrees by the thermostat and likely more…

Girls, Girls, Girls

When I first moved to Steamboat Springs, I was six years old. I started school in the fall and spent most of my first year…

You Get To It

The summer I was 25 I spent many of my days writing advice columns for teenage boys and a very few of my evenings trying to determine…

The Beach

The dress was tight and short. It had three-quarter length sleeves and a wide boatneck. It was an inexpensive ‘80s-meets-‘60s party pattern…

Mistakes I Have Made

In no particular order:

On Sailing West

Sometimes, when it is night time and I am alone in my house, I stand in my bathroom with only one light on and look at my eyes in…

From Five to Infinity

When you sat down across the table from me, we both ducked our eyes with a combination of shyness and anticipation. You…

Get Yourself Another

I am going to tell you what it means to be a fool. You won’t listen, because I didn’t listen, but I’ll tell you anyway…

Faith

I remember the first time I ever fell in love. It turned spring into a fairytale. The windows sparkled, the new sky was so blue, the last apples of…