perspective

If It Feels Good, Do It

I distinctly remember coming home one day from kindergarten crying. I was embarrassed, I wouldn’t say anything for hours. That alone was enough to cause alarm as I have never been a crier, also I never shut up. They called me Brooke, as in a babbling brook that never stopped. We’ll save that story for […]

The Gift of Distance

The other day my partner Meg and I took a long walk down 10th street on the south side of Milwaukee with a big package in our hands. It was a 3ft chocolate Tyrannosaurus Rex wrapped in gold wrapping paper for our good friend Johnathon. (He really likes dinosaurs.) When we arrived at his house, […]

Trick or Treat

One of the best things about having a kid is experiencing and re-experiencing childhood wonder through their eyes. Last year, I passed on trick or treating with a 5 month old for his first Halloween knowing how obviously it would be a parent-driven candy hoarding event and how indifferent my son would be to the […]

Tones: Do You Hear Them or Fear Them?

It could have been the worst day. My day started out normal. Dogs out. Coffee. Start the Sunday cleaning. Kids up. Off to the gym. Same old, same old. A text comes in. I don’t see it. I’m living life. I’ve got not a care in the world unless it pertains to not falling on […]

Like the Plague

I hold up my hands in defense, the accused. It didn’t start with me. I’m innocent—cough, hack, sneeze—I promise! You see, what happened was… he got sick and then came to work and then he got them sick and then I was sick the first time around, but then the next strand came and she […]