On this late morning to myself, I was ready to switch back to 20something Bre in a coffee shop - a place where I would find myself over and over again throughout my twenties. Hours upon hours were spent writing, studying, musing, and drinking a really lovely latte from a Chicago coffee shop. I loved… Continue reading Existentialism Parenting
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A Frog In Boots
I think I have been online since I was about twelve. It felt like I logged on when the internet was truly coming alive: MSN chatrooms, clunky websites, AIM messenger, and lest we forget, the music download sites that would inevitably crash the family computer. I have always been drawn to logging my thoughts online… Continue reading A Frog In Boots
How?
I am currently sitting in the dark, beneath an overhead fan at full blast. The summer heatwave has not lifted for a month, and I am 109 months pregnant. Today, though, is July 4th. A day that arrives each year where majority of us in the U.S. gather with a brat on our plate and… Continue reading How?
I’d Rather
Friends, An entire decade of looking down and finding ourselves warped by politics, ideology, and twisted realities. It feels foreign to not know what it means to choose a side. Whether it is an election, human rights extinguished, or a war waged on other lands, we have a thousand roads before us and we keep… Continue reading I’d Rather
Letters to a Young Poet
When I was heavily involved in the church, one of the things I caught onto quickly was to never "teach" or mentor from a place of learning. Meaning, if you are in the throes of life, bundle that chaos and shove it deep until you're on the other side of it. Then and only then,… Continue reading Letters to a Young Poet
New Wells
For however many times I have wanted to write, I have remained stuck; unmoving, quite literally, to the keyboard. A thousand little thoughts have taken up residence in the meantime. Today, though, I did something a little weird. In the summer of 2020, my friend Amanda had me on her (now-paused) podcast A Longer Table.… Continue reading New Wells
A Millennial Disruption
Fellow pilgrims, I have been thinking a lot about how we are inundated with generational language and conversation. Just yesterday, I overheard a conversation at work between a 75-year-old and a (presumably) 40-something. The older of the two was asking what generation the younger one was a part of. It isn't lost on me how… Continue reading A Millennial Disruption
From The Womb
Doesn't healing sometimes feel like that portrait you're pacing past; there, like art, reminding you how far you made it. That it's OK to be good because you were always good. Isn't healing happening in that moment as a parent, when your whole body swells with love. You wonder, "Did she feel this for me?"… Continue reading From The Womb
On Wars & The Collective Us
Previously posted on TinyLetter Buckle up, it’s been a while.We are existing in a rocky world right now. We have wars happening on every side of us. From Ukraine to Sudan to Armenia to Israel and Gaza. The volcanic eruption threatening Iceland. There is a thickness upon our very being that, if we allow ourselves to… Continue reading On Wars & The Collective Us
On Being Known
Previously posted on TinyLetter Friends,I wrote the following in a moment of being In The Feelings last week. I let myself sit with these words for a while, letting them work their way through my body and mind, and discovered something on the other end of them:I’m currently laying down on a bed at my cousin's… Continue reading On Being Known
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